President discussing to grant a pardon for General is a deceitful ploy –Gota’s declarations reveal

Here are the constitutional provisions

(Lanka-e-News -21.Dec.2011, 11.55PM) Based on the statement made by the defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse , it has become very clear that the story about President contemplating to grant a pardon to Gen. Fonseka is another of regime’s preposterous tales and a diabolic lie. Gota had stated with reference to the General, , ‘ sending that bloke to jail for three years is not enough . He should have been sentenced to at least ten years’. This was the furious answer given by Gota to one of the callers from Italy , when a supporter of the SLFP in Brindisi city , Italy spoke to him over the phone requesting to grant a pardon and that the three year jail sentence is unreasonable. “Because of his white flag ‘story’, I am unable to go to America to see my son. I cannot visit England. You people don’t know. You are people who fought the war on e mail. We are not like that , we were in the battlefield fighting the war”, Gota has pointed out.. “ that devil when I was returning was about to go on pension with a huge belly. I am the one who made him the Army Commander. For things he did , jailing him for three years is not enough. He must be jailed at least for ten years.”, so saying , Gota has terminated the telephone conversation. When this is the true and stubborn stance of the Rajapakse regime , non entity like Tiran Alles is trying to deceive the people by falsely claiming that he is moving to get General Fonseka released , is simultaneously actually seeking to obstruct the campaign of those who are truly agitating and protesting to get Fonseka released. Nowhere in the constitution is it stipulated that where an individual has been found guilty by a court can only be granted a pardon by the President ,only if there is a request for it. This is a power that is vested in the President as a prerogative. The provision of the constitution applicable to this is given hereunder .Please read this well. The bootlicking media who met the President yesterday did not question him on this. While this is the true position and confirmed by the constitutional provisions , this nitwit and faceless politician saying he has been discussing with the President secretly for two whole months to secure a pardon , and that Anoma Fonseka or her family member shall make a request is an absolute lie calculated to achieve his self centered gains and base political motives, and for none else.