Another corrupt official still at large
Sunday, 18 January 2015
Some officials appointed by the UPFA Government are continuing to display their arrogance and might at members of the public though the presidential elections are over and Mahinda Rajapaksa is ousted.
One such case is in the heart of the Government – at the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development.
Saman Dissanayake, a card carrying member of the SLFP, continues to harass the public visiting the Ministry offices at Renuka building along Chatham Street. The man is only an Assistant Secretary but is using his office to carry on business with a few traders in the Fort area too.
Like his former boss, Gothabaya Rajapaksa, this haughty and arrogant Dissanayake uses a “NO Caller” identification number in his mobile phone. This helps him to talk to traders and put through business deals without disclosing his identity.
Months ago, a young lady who went to the Ministry was embarrassed when Dissanayake invited her to join him to go on a picnic. The girl protested and complained she would report him to his boss (Mrs Jayaratne). She later refrained from doing it because Mrs Jayaratne is operating hand in glove with Saman Dissanayake since both hail from Moneragala.
Dissanayake openls tells members of the public who go to transact business there that he only serves those supporting the UPFA. Ironically such people are still continuing in office after the National Democratic Front came to power.
Dissanayake is also the Director in charge of non-governmental agencies. Once he urged a less controversial NGO to arrange a foreign trip for him. They say it was not possible since he was a Government official. Some of the NGO representatives have been invited to his Nugegoda hom to transact business of giving approvals. He charged a fee of anything between Rs 5,000 to Rs 100,000.
It is time the NDF Government deals with such dogs who pose of as servants of the people.
Wele Suda’s statement exposes Duminda Silva!
Sunday, 18 January 2015
The CID has unearthed evidence adequate to arrest Colombo district MP Duminda Silva on charges of heroin dealing, reports say.
Gampola Vidanelage Don Wasantha Kumara alias Wele Suda, the number one heroin dealer in Sri Lanka, has confessed to the CID about his links with MP Silva and how they had engaged in heroin dealing.
Wele Suda fled the country in 2011 and had been in hiding in Pakistan, from where he was brought back through Interpol after the defeat of Mahinda Rajapaksa. It was him who had sent container-loads of heroin to the country in recent times. He has revealed, with evidence, that MP Silva had provided him government protection to engage in heroin dealing.
However, the CID has found to be false the rumour that Wele Suda had given, through MP Silva, gold worth Rs. 10 million at the wedding of the son of former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
Although the CID is already investigating MP Silva, its officers are of the view that it would be difficult for them to arrest him. That is because, certain UNP figures, who had continued to receive monetary assistance from MP Silva even after he had joined the Rajapaksa regime as a provincial councilor just before the radio and television licenses of his brother were to expire, would continue to protect him, said CID officials who gave us these details.
