A clue to finance minister on container scanning project!

Oct 28, 2015

Five leading international companies have submitted bids for the Build, operate and transfer (BOT) container scanning project in Sri Lanka. All these companies have handed over their expressions of interest (EOI) for the project. This project needs special expertise, and Germany’s Smith Detection, Canada’s Visual Defence System and three others have expressed a desire to start the project.

The EOIs were called during the final stage of the Rajapaksa regime, and after the new government came to power, the task was suspended, pending the general election, with finance minister Ravi Karunanayake giving instructions for a fresh appraisal of the submissions.

On his instructions, a committee has been tasked with preparing the necessary specifications. This committee comprises a professor of the Moratuwa University and an individual by the name Rupananda. This Rupananda is the Sri Lanka agent for the German company Smith Detection. He and the professor have prepared the specifications to suit this company. This is an act like setting a thief to catch a thief, say the other parties involved. They are going to lodge a complaint to the finance minister.