All ads to SLBC come through agency owned by Baba’s wife!

 

Sunday, 09 November 2014 

The Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation is obtaining all its commercial advertisements through an advertising agency in Kandy owned by the wife of SLBC additional director general Erananda Hettiarachchi alias Baba.

All advertisements secured for the SLBC are taken by three of its marketing executives to this advertising agency, which sell them back to the Corporation, say its employees.

The wife of the ADG is employed at a private insurance firm.

It is through this insurance firm that Harendra Liyanage, who was transferred out of the SLBC’s sports division after he had sold inside information to outsiders and now engaged in a vehicle racket, gets all those vehicles insured.

Therefore, Erananda Hettiarachchi, due to pressure by his wife, has been unable to take any action against Harendra Liyanage.

Sri Lanka Cricket had complained to SLBC over this Harendra Liyanage’s having taken an outsider to the commentary box during a cricket match, but the ADG had covered it up.

Even SLC has expressed surprise over this.

Erananda Hettiarachchi had used to spend his time at the home of his aunt at Karandupana in Kegalle, which regularly gets flooded, but is now behaving like a man of means.

Without Ranasinghe Premadasa, he could not have achieved such heights, but if he saw the present conduct of Erananda Hettiarachchi, the late president would have risen from his grave and strangled him, say the corporation employees.