Karunasena Hettiarachchi to be removed as defence secretary!

Nov 22, 2015

Incumbent defence secretary, engineer Karunasena Hettiarachchi will be removed from the position soon, the government has decided. According to reports, the reason is the revelation of a fraud amounting to millions of rupees when he was chairman of the National Water Supply and Drainage Board.

The other suspect in this fraud has been arrested by the CID and remanded, and believing the government will be inconvenienced, the CID has sought advice of the prime minister and the president on how investigations should continue.

 

All quarters are keeping a watch as to how the president will respond, as Hettiarachchi was his classmate at school. The president has asked the person who informed him about this, “does Karu know about this?” The PM has said that this was a matter for the president to resolve.

 

We have all information about the financial irregularity pertaining to a plot of land connected to a water purification plant. Before we reveal the information, we hope that Hettiarachchi takes the precedence given by Thilak Marapana and resign honourably as the defence secretary, without inconveniencing the government.