Making Muditha Jayakody a state witness is like setting a thief to catch a thief
Mar 09, 2017
Muditha Jayakody is synonymous with the black money of the Rajapaksas.
The cat came out of the bag after the ownership of the house and the 16 acre land said to have been owned by Basil Rajapaksa was transferred to him. Muditha was the architect for this house as well as for the Brown’s Hill palace in Matara, D.A. Rajapaksa Foundation’s Gampaha office etc. and he had not levied any charge for doing that work. Instead, he was given major construction projects of the government without any tender calling by the Rajapaksas. An investigation is underway into that.
Muditha brags himself to be the ‘modern day Geoffrey Bawa.’ Geoffrey Bawa was the architect par excellence who had designed many iconic constructions in Sri Lanka, including the parliamentary complex. Had he known that he would one day be compared to a thief like Muditha, Geoffrey Bawa would either have said goodbye to his architectural work, or he would have abandoned the country. Muditha is a nobody who had become somebody due to his having laundered the black money belonging to the Rajapaksas.
The cabinet had decided against giving contracts to Muditha Jayakody Associates. That is because he had been given many major contracts on Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s orders, without calling for tenders. Also, he had been paid in excess for those contracts. He had claimed those contracts by uttering a complete falsehood that he had 20 architects and 30 engineers working full time under him. A liar like him is to be made a state witness now.
If Muditha is to be made a state witness after having swindled and misused public money, even Wele Suda should be able to turn state witness. Wele Suda did not swindle public money, but had ‘earned foreign exchange for the country.’ By aiding thieves to escape the law will only make those who had committed treason to become heroes. Attached herewith is the previous revelation made about Muditha by Lanka News Web. We should think again about the sympathy shown by the ‘Yahapaalanaya’ towards Gotabhaya and Muditha who had swindled public money.
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