Mahinda feels sorry for IGP

Thursday, 14 May 2015

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa says the present government has rendered the IGP as a powerless person and discarded him, and that a separate newly formed unit of the police is taking revenge from his

relatives and friends.

He said so while participating in a religious activity at Gorakaduwa temple yesterday (13).

The ex-president said a large number of persons, including MPs, has been sent to prison on charges such as using state vehicles. “A case is to be filed against me too, saying that the Marriot hotel in Dubai belongs to me. Another is saying that I had swindled 18 billion.”

He has felt so sorry for the police chief. But, he is the president who had ruined the independent police commission. He is the president who did not allow police to carry out responsibilities independently. He is the president who made a puppet out of police and made it to dance to the tunes of his family and his own. He is the president who had made the entire police service corrupt.

While the ex-president acted thus during his period, the present IGP showed ignorance, and after ‘Yaha Paalana’ regime came to power, what he did was to protect the thieves and the corrupt, instead of investigating and prosecuting them. It has now been revealed that the IGP is leaking information to the ex-president and the former defence secretary with regard to investigations into these thieves. Therefore, the government had to form the FCID under a DIG. Thereafter, the IGP became a powerless person. That is why Rajapaksa has felt sorry for his servant,