Sirsenas run amok : SLT chairman Sirisena gives jobs in SLT to misfits of Dudley Siriena’s Araliya Co.

(Lanka-e-News -01.Dec.2015, 11.45PM) The brothers of president Maithripala Sirisena are enjoying the State ‘s assets according to their  own whims and fancies, based on reports reaching Lanka e news .The most important of them is the younger brother Kumarasinghe Sirisena creeping in to the post of chairman of SLT and Mobitel , and  thereafter creating  bogus posts in the SLT - Mobitel , and appointing employees who are currently working in  Araliya Co of his brother Dudley Sirisena , granting high salaries and perks to them.

One case in point is the appointment of 'Sarath Kahavavitharane' as advisor to Kumarasinghe Sirisena .He is already working in Dudley’s Kumarasinghe’s Araliya group , and while cliaming he is the advisor to Kumarasinghe is collecting a salary of many hundreds of thousand rupees per month along with many perks including a vehicle. 

What is most shcoking about this is , this individual has only passed the preliminary license sheet exam of Chartered accountancy. Surely if such blokes like Kahavavitharane who has just this basic chartered accountancy qualification is proffering advice to such a vast Institution as SLT , it can be imagined what doom is in store for the SLT. Bankruptcy  of the Institution is writ already on the wall. When bankruptcy follows , the Malaysian share holders will take back their shares and leave the shores. When Kumarasinghe recently presented a paper to the  SlT board of Directors to increase his salary three fold (Lanka e news exposed this Kumarasinghe Sirisena greed earlier) , it was this half baked nincompoop Kahavevitharane the (m)advisor  who endorsed this request.

'Walter' who still works in the Araliya group of Dudley Sirisena too has been summoned and given a post created in the Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) , with a salary and perks running into many hundreds of thousand rupees. This bloke has been appointed purportedly to monitor the Mobitel and the affiliated Co. –Vision Com. Co. It is worthy of note such a post never was in existence before.

In addition , another individual by the name of 'Ranga'  , a henchman of Kumarasinghe Sirisena who worked with the latter previously at the Timber Corporation has also been summoned to the SLT and appointed as IT advisor with a salary and perks amounting to many hundreds of thousand rupees. When Lanka e news made inquiries , it was discovered that Ranga was only an electrician at Timber Corporation  and has no engineering degree qualification .Surely , Kumarasinghe Sirisena and Maithripala Sirisena  should have the common sense to understand what is the advice such a ‘Ranga’ can offer to the B.Sc , M.Sc quailfied engineers at the SLT .

Another misfit has been similarly appointed to the SLT by Kumarasinghe Sirisena . He is a retired air force officer by the name of 'Dissanayake'. He is made the SLT manpower monitering. Such a post too  never existed before.

Kumarasinghe Sirisena who has found  employment for   misfits and unqualified inividuals of Dudley’s Araliya group in the SLT is having fun and frolic at the expense of public funds , while paying huge salaries and perks to them. On top of this , he has after spending wastefully enlarged his office three fold and refurbished it. Incredible but true ,   Kumarasinghe Sirisena is keeping two vehicles of the SLT , two vehicles of the Mobitel and vehicles of the Timber Corporation for his personal use.

Surprisingly ,it is in regard  to this same most profligate corrupt younger brother who is playing ducks and drakes with public funds ,  Maithripala Sirisena said recently ,  Kumarasinghe Sirisena is not drawing  one cent salary more than his predecessor.  

In contradistinction , when  Nimal Welgama was the SLT chairman , he did only a few foreign tours on behalf of the SLT and has not used any funds of the SLT towards these tours.  He had met all the expenditure out of his personal funds. Believe it or not , Kumarasinghe on the other hand , since he became the SLT chairman , even before a year had elapsed ,  had gone on junkets to Barcelona , France, America and England. Mind you these trips are unrelated to SLT interests . Besides all those expenditures have been defrayed by the SLT.

Truly , if president Maithripala has any sincere concern for his much hyped good governance , he must based on the explicit exposures made by Lanka e new s, conduct an investigation into his younger brother’s outrageous corruption ,perfidies and profligacy , and chase his younger brother out of SLT forthwith without further jeapordising the SLT’s future and of the country as a whole. Otherwise posterity will curse him for putting the country on the sure road to destruction wantonly after making all the grandiose and solemn promises to the people who elected him.

When Maithripala Sirisena was the minister of agriculture , his brother Dudley Sirisena ran a ‘Rice Mafia’ . When Miathripala Sirisena was the minister of Mahaweli , his brother ‘Weli Raju’ did sand mining on the sly in the Mahaweli lands  after creating a ‘Sand Mafia’ . And now when Maithripala Sirisena is the president , the people must be wondering whether based on the murky activities at the SLT of his younger brother Kumarasinghe Sirisena , he is creating a ‘Telecom Mafia.’ 

Shouldn’t the people be proud of such a president ? After all were it not the people who elected him ?

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