Maithripala’s cat catches Gota’s mischievous rat spying on government’s own Ministers

(Lanka-e-News- 19.Aug.2014, 2.30PM) Minister of health Maithripala Sirisena had been able to recently catch red handed a police officer appointed to his personal security detail planted by Sri Lanka (SL) criminal defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse to secretly spy on the activities of the Minister.

This police officer by the name of Bandara had been planted by Gotabaya into the Minister’s security detail for espionage activities on the latter .This officer was for some time working under Mathripala as a member of his personal security squad , and secretly transmitting information daily to criminal defense secretary Gotabaya relating to the Minister’s activities as well as about his associates , friends , visitors and political activists .

Gotabaya has been paying this spy an additional monthly payment of Rs 50,000/- via his secret Ministry fund over and above his monthly salary for his espionage activities on the government’s own Minister , and mind you a most senior Minister at that. Unfortunately for Gotabaya , when this spy was trapped , he had confessed every fact like a parrot in detail under oath. Subsequently , the Minister had relieved this officer of his security duties.

It is well to recall that Minister Maithripala was a Minister who escaped a bomb explosion when an attempt was made on his life at Boralegamuwa during the war period . Maithripala also told a media briefing convened by him some months ago that there is a group trying to murder him.

Interestingly ,Lanka e news which is always first with the news and best with the views , exposing the truth undaunted and undeterred , reported about a year ago, Gotabaya has deployed spies as cooks , drivers and members of the security contingent of the Ministers , chief Ministers and political opponents who the Rajapakses decide are inimical to them. Even their telephone calls are being secretly tapped , Lanka e news further pointed out.

This report has now been borne out by this latest incident. At present only Minister Maithripala’s victimization by his own government has come to light …… many more are in the pipeline .