350 bulbs each worth Rs. 150,000 at Premadasa stadium given for Rajapakse night race missing! Is Nishantha punishment immune ? Where is the committee report ?

(Lanka-e-News -25.Oct.2015, 4.55)  Like those who get themselves elected to official positions of the Sri Lanka (SL) cricket board , those appointed to its sub committees too are drooling at the sight of the colossal funds flooding the cricket  board , and are therefore eager to pilfer them at the first opportunity.Even those who resigned or have been dismissed  are once again moving heaven and earth to creep back. They are averse to giving up on their appointments , and never want to be away from putting their fingers into the succulent pie.These are well and widely known incontrovertible unassailable truths  in Sri Lanka’s cricketing arena.

The former minister of sports Naveen Dissanayake appointed a cricket sub committee to search and detect the perfidies and deceitful activities of those who became office bearers via  elections, and through sub committees . 

Lo and behold ! unbelievably those appointed to that sub committee were also  equally bad or worse ! For instance Jayananda Warnaweera ,who functioned as a member of that sub committee was suspected of match fixing by the ICC , but before he could be sacked , he resigned and saved face. Another member , Prakash Shaffter , who whenever  there is a cricket test tournament ,  somehow gets a test match to be played at the Saravanamuttu Oval playground which is his  club’s playground. At the expense of the cricket association he gets his club’s playground refurbished .

Nusky Mohomed another member- his obsession and interest  is to get all the purchasing orders worth many millions of rupees of cricket gear to his sales center . Kushil Gunasekera is an NGO weed .  His eagerness is to  boost his establishment’s  popularity at the expense of the cricket association.

Of course the disrepute of Nishantha Ranatunge is so well known that it  reverberates  even beyond the skies. Not only in  the COPE report even in every disgraceful  report his infamous  name is mentioned purely for most  sordid reasons.

The three member COPE committee report that was handed over to the sports minister Dayasiri recently too spotlights  them well and thoroughly. Because of the close ties between Nishantha and Dayasiri , the latter is keeping the report hidden without making it public.

Like birds of a feather flock together , these  rogues gather to rob the country together .It is Mahindananda another corrupt ex minister and  bosom pal of Nishantha who gives counsel on this matter to Dayasiri. It is a widely known fact that even riight now there are  on going investigations against Nishantha at the FCID (Financial crimes investigation department), Bribery commission and the CID. Despite this , Nishantha has started his canvassing for the post of chairman , cricket board at the next election.  Upali Dharmadasa , another Rajapakse lickspittle and lackey is backing him.

As always with pro Rajapakse stooges , there are grave charges against Dharmadasa mentioned in the three member committee investigative report ,of undertaking a tender to refurbish the Ketharama cricket stadium flouting proper tender procedures . He is accused of cheating in a colossal sum of many million rupees by giving the tender illegally to his company.

In addition ,there is another group collecting illicit commissions and benefits through other methods in many millions within the cricket association while  working as employees drawing  a salary uninterruptedly without serving any  useful purpose.Among them are officers in the higher echelons , as well as  cuties employed serving the lascivious interests  of frustrated players . That being the oldest profession in the world , those in it are most powerful .In a partnership company , usually sleeping partners are less powerful , but here at the cricket asociation sleeping partners are most powerful. When the players crow cock a doodle do , and officials crow any diddle will do ,their sleeping  partners groan  any cock would do. 

On top of all these ,an individual very close to Nishantha Ranatunge , a high rung officer by the name of Carlton ; a chief of a popular marketing division ‘Three idiots’ ; a human resource chief : an engineer :and a chief of tournament tours are cheating on and gobbling up massive funds with gay abandon via  tournament tours and sponsorship. These individuals who are receiving a montly salary are owning super luxury BMW  and VESEL vehicles.Nishantha Ranatunge in particular changes vehicles much more often . It is being whispered that he does not change even his jockstraps that frequently. He owns houses and lands in and around Colombo worth billions of rupees. He has  also purchased  properties abroad , based on reports.

It is learnt that when it was exposed that there were match fixing and charges were leveled against SL and Indian players during the SL premier legaue tournament , Nishantha had covered it up. One such incident involves Suresh Raina at Dambulla stadium ..

Most notorious Nishantha removed 350 bulbs of  high wattage and each valuing Rs. 150,000.00 from the Premadasa playground  to be used for the night races of the sons of Mahinda Rajapakse during the latter’s reign. Later , only five of those bulbs had been returned. 

Nishantha ‘s bungling , blundering and duping are  unending . Nishantha  recruited Vajira Dissanayake , an unqualified incompetent individual as an IT officer who had no knowledge or eligibility regarding trade or media . In spite of it  he was promoted as Trade and communication chief. As he failed to submit an audit  progress report on the souvenirs and promotion program, and because he fraudulently altered a bill for Rs. 6000.00 to Rs.16000.00 , he had to be interdicted recently. 

Dissanayake is one who takes part in Nuwara eliya races as a jockey , and  provides horses .Under the sports Act of this country , nobody who is engaged in gaming or wagering can hold an  official post and receive a salary from a sports body.Yet to Dassanayake that prohibition was no bar.

While he was under interdiction , a very strange  intriguing inquiry was conducted against him …
A manager of human resources who is a very close friend of the accused Vajira Dissanayake had brought in a lawyer who is also supposed to be a bosom pal of Vajira, to conduct the inquiry. Employees of the cricket association point out this was like holding an inquiry against the crook  before the  mother of the crook who is the judge. 

Meanwhile , Vajira’s  secretary is also facing the  same charges of fraudulent bill alteration . Yet two superior officers who have run dry of their fluids  simply by  drooling over women , coming forward in her defense are trying to  give  her a promotion instead of taking penal action.  On an earlier occasion ,  during a Test match at Galle , a SL cricketer was caught red handed with her in a hotel away from the playground . Though the player  faced punishment she escaped somehow. It is rumored her partners run dry but never  she.

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