More colleagues engaged in Wimal’s politics with public money exposed

FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016

Another instance of former Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Wimal Weerawansa using two offices named Battaramulla Sub project office and ‘Jana Sevana’ supervision office under National Housing Development Authority to serve his friends and relatives and provide employment for his party colleagues so that they could engage in his party politics with public money during 2011 to 2014 period has been revealed.

About twenty people had been given appointments under Ocean View Development Company attached to the Ministry to work in the relevant offices and except for three of them other seventeen people had drawn salaries from Ocean View Development Company while employed elsewhere.

Also, Minister Weerawansa had informed that his relatives and friends should be released from the offices so that they could directly engage in his political work.

Among the staff of the offices is Prasanna Sanjeewa Tennekone, a journalist of Vijaya newspapers. According to information he has been the news coordinator of the office.

One of the offices had been maintained at National Housing Development Authority and the other at No. 33, Sunil Mawatha, Battaramulla.

According to sources the offices did not need the number of employees recruited and the government had been incurred a loss of Rs.30 million due to the illegal appointments.