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(Lanka-e-News-08.July.2014, 3.30PM) 380 unsuitable unqualified candidates without holding any examination to test their competence were recruited as clerks to the National savings bank on the 28 th last month . The only qualification that was taken into account was, they are all Rajapakse regime stooges , lackeys, cronies and henchmen who would stoop to do any sordid biddings of the regime .It is well to recall, in the wake of the 1988-89 insurgency , Dr. G L Peiris, a Minister of the very Rajapakse regime emphatically stated in the recommendations made by the ‘youths restless committee’ of which he was the chairman that , the prime and principal reason for the youth restlessness in the country is the appointment to jobs based on political favoritism.
Late R. Premadasa thereafter in implementation of that recommendation , introduced a system to recruit candidates to jobs via competitive examinations. Sadly , the Rajapakse regime on the contrary ,threw away that recommendation into the garbage bin , and in its characteristic fashion like how it had deliberately allowed the country to go to the dogs, and unthinking of the damage its selfish power perpetuation centered policies can cause to the country at large , has recently recruited 380 of its stooges to the posts.
The worst part ? there were no notification in the newspapers or any gazette that there are vacancies in the bank, or calling of applications for suitable candidates . This has been done solely in view of the forthcoming Uva provincial council elections . One of the groups thus recruited comprises henchmen of Uva chief Minister Sashindra Rajapakse.
One group recruited is that of National savings bank (NSB) working Director , Sasthara Sumane . Another group comprises the henchmen of Nil Balakaya .
Some of the recruits told Lanka e news inside information division , that each of them paid Rs, 500,000/- as bribe to either Sasthra Sumane or the chiefs of Nil Balakaye to secure the appointments.
Some other youths revealed , in order to secure their NSB appointments , they even had to provide sexual bribes to astrologer Sumane and a Nil Balakaya chief who solicited sexual favors.
It is worthy of note that the present NSB is under MaRa’s finance ministry, and may we be permitted to recall , MaRa during his youthful days in 1970, when he was an M.P. founded this sexual exploitation method and used it to the full too while lodging in sleazy rest houses when giving appointments for jobs.
In 1970, this disgraceful rest house appointment system of MaRa was the cause of disappointment to the SLFP , and fall from its grace. This had a very grave detrimental impact on the party, because no decent person or parent would condone this type of appointment where the candidate had to face the stigmatic experience of sleeping with MaRa in a rest house and provide sexual gratification before an appointment being given.
The present NSB appointments are reminiscent of MaRa’s youthful days of his sexual exploits when he earned a notoriety for his close association with pimps , prostitutes and rest houses in nooks and crannies, let alone the crooks and cronies.
Employees of National savings bank (NSB) which has hitherto maintained a reputation say , henceforth NSB stands for ‘National Sexual Bribery’ under MaRa.
