SLT loses Rs. 2.5 m from Anusha’s bogus election office!
- Saturday, 24 January 2015
The Sri Lanka Telecom is set to lose Rs. 2.5 million due to the bogus election office set up near the Narahenpita public fair by Telecommunications Regulatory Authority director general Anusha Pelpita to change results of the presidential election.
This place was run also with the involvement of Maj. Gen. Prasad Piyasagara Samarasinghe, media director of Dalada Maligawa Krishantha Hissella, known to his friends as Sulu Diyawadana Nilame. The money is due to SLT for 25 telephone lines and one lease line.
All the telephones had been obtained to the name of Strategic Enterprises Management Agency (SEMA), and the agreements reached through K.D.K. Parakrama of SEMA. Following Mahinda Rajapaksa’s defeat the place was closed down and those who ran it went missing. Pelpita is due to be summoned to the Colombo Fraud Detection Bureau to be questioned regarding this.
We will keep a watch regarding the action the new SLT chairman takes to ensure that the payment is collected.
Requests Made For Exiled Journos To Return But No Action Taken
January 24, 2015
The absence of a formal request for the exiled journalists to return to Sri Lanka, has cast a shadow over their return despite several government Ministers’ invitation for them to return.
Gayantha Karunatilake – Minister Media
Although informal invitations have been extended by Ministers of the new government including Rajitha Senaratne and Gayantha Karunatilake, a formal request is yet to be made through the parliament by either the Prime Minister or the President concerning this matter.
Considering the circumstances in which these journalists fled the country during the previous regime, such a formal request has become vital as fabricated court cases have been filed against some of the journalists living in exile.
Journalists who bore dissenting views or criticized the Rajapaksa regime were labelled as ‘LTTE supporters’ and ‘traitors’ and files were opened by the Terrorist Investigation Department on some of the exiled journalists including the Colombo Telegraph editor.
However, despite the regime change the Attorney General has not made any promise so far with concern to any possibility of withdrawing such cases. Neither has any promise been made by the new government to expunge such intimidating inquiries or withdraw Airport surveillance.
Although the Colombo Telegraph made several attempts to contact those responsible for a comment on the situation, none of them have been reachable.
