Wijedasa gives information about Mervyn to the President
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Sources from temple Trees say that there’s a cold war brewing between the President and Public Affairs and Public relations Minister Mervyn Silva. Sources said that the persons involved in the murder of Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha member Hasitha Madawela had been captured by the police due to this reason.
The reason is the recent statement made by Mervyn on the ITN channel that Wijedasa Rajapakshe was a no good lawyer. The programme had been telecast on ITN on the night an unidentified gunman had shot at Rajapakshe’s residence. Mervyn had mad evarious derogatory statements about Rajapakshe throughout the programme.
The day after the programme was telecast, Mervyn had telephoned one of his key lackeys Ranjan Silva alias Kalu Ranja. Mervyn had said, “Machang, you and I are from the South, but I’m sad about what happened to you. I was given a programme on ITN to appear in. I was asked to hit at you, so I had to. Those are bosses orders and I have to carry them. Don’t take notice of what I said.”
It is a well known secret that Rajapakshe lends his monies to businessmen through Kalu Ranja.
A few days after the incident, President’s Counsel and Minister Faizer Musthapha had telephone Rajapakshe and told him that the President wanted him to contest again for the post of Bar Association President. A disgruntled Rajapakshe had told Musthapha about the entire telephone conversation that with Mervyn had taken place a few days earlier.
Rajapakshe had said he would not be contesting for the post in the Bar Association again.
Soon after the telephone call, Musthapha had gone to Temple Trees and informed the President of what Rajapakshe had said.
Our sources say that the President has now ordered an investigation into Mervyn’s actions, his statements and people whom he is associating.
BASL And Wijedasa Had Their Own Concerns?
By Vishvamithra -
January 16, 2013 Yet, when Mohan Peiris arrived at the Supreme Court premises the general membership of the bar observed something fishy and strange. The government supporters hailed both Wijedasa Rajapakshe and Mohan Peiris followed by a statement by the bar that it was willing to cooperate with the illegitimate CJ Mohan Peiris.
The membership of the bar, feels that the head of the Bar effectively deceived them. They sensed that both the general membership and the general public that opposed the oppressive, arrogant and lawless regime has been betrayed by Wijedasa Rajapakshe, the kind of total breakdown of the integrity eaten into the entire social fabric in this country.
As happened in Pakistan recently, when some members demanded the Association the total stoppage of work until the legitimate CJ is recalled and restored to the office, it was opposed by the Executive Committee, on the basis that 48 hour token stoppage of work is adequate to display the dissent of the Bar, which in any event the President Rajapakse would have appreciated, even 72 hours of stoppage of work. Effectively the Executive committee of the Bar disregarded the offer made by the JSA (Association of Magistrates and Judges in the District Courts) that they would fully standby any decision taken by the bar that would lead to restore the rule of law.
In this backdrop, the people of this country, indiscriminate battered by the deceptive leadership and helpless would only raise the question, as to the morale integrity of this so-called professional body, which some members of public referred as ‘black coats’ and about the false leadership it offered to the public, at a time there was a total breakdown of the law and order in the country.
