Arundhika who said Ekneliyagoda is in France is a blatant liar -friend Manjula :I never told that
(Lanka-e-News -08.June.2013, 7.00PM) Arundhika Fernando M.P. while raising a question of privilege, once again told in Parliament yesterday (07) , his statement in Parliament that Lanka e news journalist Prageeth Ekneliyagoda (who was abducted by the MaRa government and thereafter disappeared ) is in France was based on information supplied to him by the media personnel Manjula Wediwardena .
During the debate in Parliament on the 5th on the Press council Bill, Arundhika complained to Speaker in Parliament , his statement that Ekneliyagoda is in France , and he met him was exploited by the electronic , print media and websites to criticize him which is a breach of Parliamentary privilege .
The MP told for the second time in Parliament that he got to know this when he went to France where he met a school friend Manjula Wediwardena the media personnel , and that the latter revealed this information to him while pointing to a short individual with a shaved head who his friend identified as Ekneliyagoda . At that moment , the supposed Ekneliyagoda avoided him and left the place , Arundhika added.
Manjula Wediwardena is a media personnel who fled the country on security grounds , and has acquired political refugee status in France, and a poet .Lanka e news inquired from Manjula Wediwardena as regards the statement made by Arundhika.
Manjula Wediwardena said as follows :
Arundhika Fernando who claims that he is his School friend had never met him in France, and what Arundhika said is an absolute lie. Manjula went on to say , ‘Arundhika came to Paris a year ago , and through a phone of my friend he contacted me , and wished to meet me. As I was about 100 miles away from Paris , I told Arundhika that I cannot meet him. In any case during that phone discussion nothing about Ekneliyagoda was discussed . Besides , I have met Ekneliyagoda once or twice in Sri Lanka , but thereafter I have not met him anywhere or any day. When Ekneliyagoda ‘s disappearance was reported , I was in France.’
Manjula pinpointed that Arundhika is a most unconscionable accomplished liar and opportunist from his school days ,and therefore concocting false stories is a matter of routine for him He was notorious for betraying his other friends too by his profuse lying, he added.
Manjula also stated , Arundhika being an M.P. of the government that has appointed another practitioner of all the cardinal sins as the chief justice , nothing worthy or truthful can be expected of him. Naturally, if anybody is to give credence to Arundhika who had made lying his favorite hobby , he or she is a fool . People must be wary not to fall into the traps of these born liars and self seeking opportunists , he emphasized.
(Lanka-e-News -08.June.2013, 7.00PM) Arundhika Fernando M.P. while raising a question of privilege, once again told in Parliament yesterday (07) , his statement in Parliament that Lanka e news journalist Prageeth Ekneliyagoda (who was abducted by the MaRa government and thereafter disappeared ) is in France was based on information supplied to him by the media personnel Manjula Wediwardena .During the debate in Parliament on the 5th on the Press council Bill, Arundhika complained to Speaker in Parliament , his statement that Ekneliyagoda is in France , and he met him was exploited by the electronic , print media and websites to criticize him which is a breach of Parliamentary privilege .
The MP told for the second time in Parliament that he got to know this when he went to France where he met a school friend Manjula Wediwardena the media personnel , and that the latter revealed this information to him while pointing to a short individual with a shaved head who his friend identified as Ekneliyagoda . At that moment , the supposed Ekneliyagoda avoided him and left the place , Arundhika added.
Manjula Wediwardena is a media personnel who fled the country on security grounds , and has acquired political refugee status in France, and a poet .Lanka e news inquired from Manjula Wediwardena as regards the statement made by Arundhika.
Manjula Wediwardena said as follows :
Arundhika Fernando who claims that he is his School friend had never met him in France, and what Arundhika said is an absolute lie. Manjula went on to say , ‘Arundhika came to Paris a year ago , and through a phone of my friend he contacted me , and wished to meet me. As I was about 100 miles away from Paris , I told Arundhika that I cannot meet him. In any case during that phone discussion nothing about Ekneliyagoda was discussed . Besides , I have met Ekneliyagoda once or twice in Sri Lanka , but thereafter I have not met him anywhere or any day. When Ekneliyagoda ‘s disappearance was reported , I was in France.’
Manjula pinpointed that Arundhika is a most unconscionable accomplished liar and opportunist from his school days ,and therefore concocting false stories is a matter of routine for him He was notorious for betraying his other friends too by his profuse lying, he added.
Manjula also stated , Arundhika being an M.P. of the government that has appointed another practitioner of all the cardinal sins as the chief justice , nothing worthy or truthful can be expected of him. Naturally, if anybody is to give credence to Arundhika who had made lying his favorite hobby , he or she is a fool . People must be wary not to fall into the traps of these born liars and self seeking opportunists , he emphasized.
