Basil’s samurdhi misues Rs. 45 million
- Friday, 25 April 2014
The Samurdhi Officers Association says that the e-samurdhi programme launched by the Sri Lanka Samurdhi Authority of the Economic Development Ministry in August 2011 to compile a database of Samurdhi recipients, entrepreneurs and employees had only been a colossal waste of nearly Rs. 45 million.
In a statement, secretary of the Association Chamara Maddumakaluge invite to everyone to the website esamurdhi.gov.lk could see the reality of this tragedy.
Giving examples, the statement says the database says there are two Samurdhi entrepreneurs engaged in agriculture – one in mushroom and the other Gotukola – but it fails to mention their names.
Also, this database cannot give the salary particulars of a Samurdhi employee.
Training workshops held for the employees at huge costs were of no use and the management had failed to have any vision or mission, and instead had used the programme for political purposes, says the association.
The misuse of public money by political appointees in this manner is a very serious issue, it stresses, adding that the officials who are responsible for this failed programme should be made to pay for the losses.
Need UN assistance to change MR - SF
- Friday, 25 April 2014
If the government and its leadership continue to be corrupt and keep oppressing the people, the opposition will have to seek the assistance of the United Nations (UN) to change the leadership, Democratic Party Leader Sarath Fonseka said yesterday (24) .
He said he had discussed this issue with UNP Leadership Council Chairman Karu Jayasuriya on Wednesday.
“There is no relief for the people of this country and there is no way out of the misery they are engulfed in. This is why we may have to seek the help of the UN and international community to change the people unfriendly situation here. I informed Mr. Jayasuriya on the issue and he agreed with me,” he told a news conference.
He said there were laws and regulations set by the UN to protect people of a country from its corrupt rulers. “As Sri Lanka is also a member of the UN, we have to accept its rules,” he said.
Mr. Fonseka said the United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHRC) had already tabled and passed a resolution against Sri Lanka for alleged human rights violations because the Council had come to the conclusion that the leadership and the government was violating the human rights of the people.
“The UNHRC had taken the decision to pass a resolution against the country because of human right violations. When people are helpless and neglected by the government, the UN will know what step to take next,” he said
