Jiffy shows that the president don’t have a power of a coconut husk thread
Oct 15, 2015
The Jiffy management last 13th showed the officers of the Central Environment Authority that they don’t bother the power of the executive president’s whose holding the environment ministry at least for a thread of a coconut husk. The Central Environmental Authority following the continuous allegations we leveled against the company has once again taken steps to inspect the operations of the Jiffy Company which is still discharging the poisonous chemical calcium nitrate to the Deduru Oya causing a large environmental destruction.
However when a team of Central Environment Authority officers made a sudden visit to the Jiffy factory last 13th, the management of the factory has not allowed the officers to enter the factory. The management has said the CEA officers has no authority to enter the company where as the CEA is an institutions under the supervision of the president.
During the former Rajapaksa regime Minister Basil Rajapaksa did not allow any of the CEA officers to enter the company. Some officers were inflicted with death threats.
However the effort taken to enter the company with the help of the Kobeigane police officers informing the DIG office in Kurunegala has also failed. The Kobeigane police who dance to the tune of the Jiffy Company have also told that they cannot do anything if the company don’t allow. Later the officers have returned back. Kurunegala central environment officers too have joined this group which visited to inspect the company. The Jiffy factory prevented a group of environmentalists before, when they went for an inspection around Deduru Oya. The environmentalists were taken into custody by the police and the police even tried to take the videos of what they recorded.
The local chief of the Jiffy Company is one Sandeeptha Gamlath who is the brother of the solicitor general Suhada Gamlath. It is a known fact that Suhada Gamlath is a famous ally of the Rajapaksa regime. Lawyers who deal with these case points out, problems have emerged not only at the Attorney General office but the eight court cases filed against the Jiffy Company.
Recently the Jiffy Company invited Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe, the Wayamb chief minister Dharmasiri Dasanayake and few reporters and showed their company premises and made a jolly trip. Even today the company has invited another group of reporters (representing English media) and arranged luxury refreshment. Following the trip these ministers has told the media this Jiffy Company is a super company which beautifully conducts its operation.
However it is a funny, that the president who demonstrates around the country that he can use his executive powers to protect the environment when this multinational Norway Jiffy company’s continue to ignore the president’s power and destruct the environment.
However it is a funny, that the president who demonstrates around the country that he can use his executive powers to protect the environment when this multinational Norway Jiffy company’s continue to ignore the president’s power and destruct the environment.
