Defense secretary Hettiarachi and Wegapitiya perpetrate a tender fraud ! Whither SL ?

-Chief Accountant of ministry who opposed transferred !

(Lanka-e-News- 05.June.2016, 11.30PM)  The Chief Accountant of defense ministry who did not permit the perpetration of a  tender fraud was transferred with immediate effect to the  Water supplies by defense secretary Karunasena Hettiarachi, and an Accountant as well as  a close sidekick  of the Water supplies who were for some time aiding  and abetting in the corruption activities of Hettiarachi  earlier have been transferred to the defense ministry .

It is the defense ministry that can call for tenders for  the forces which are in excess of  Rs. 25 million in value. Accordingly, two tenders  to the value of Rs. 55 million were called by   the defense ministry .Two days before the tender bids were opened the defense secretary has summoned the chief accountant M.J. Gunasekera  ( a most qualified and competent officer) and told him ahead ,the bidder who is to be awarded the tender is arriving there , and a meeting with him is being arranged .

Later , it was the most unscrupulous  Laugfs gas chief  Wegapitiya , a pro MaRa  notorious wheeler dealer who had arrived to meet Hettiarachi. The latter had introduced Wegapitiya to Gunasekera , and instructed Gunasekera after Wegapitiya left to award the two tenders to him , and with that in view to do the needful.

Gunasekera , an officer who had maintained a clean slate and acted with a backbone from the time Gotabaya was the defense secretary had replied , as the defense secretary is the  chairman of the tender board , it is better he   expresses  that before others.  Gunasekera  ,a government officer of a rare breed in Sri Lanka  had frankly and fearlessly told Hettiarachi to his face ,    he cannot do anything illegal that transgresses the tender procedures.

How progressive will Sri Lanka be if there are more honest officers like Gunasekera and fewer officers like Hettiarachi in our Public service !

Hettiarachi who flew into a rage had taken immediate steps to transfer ‘Kamani’ an incompetent and least qualified Accountant (with whose aiding and abetting Hettiarachi   played his sordid games earlier) of the Water Supplies, and sidekick  ‘Janaka’ to the defense ministry with immediate effect  , while transferring Gunasekera to the Water Supplies.

Last Wednesday , the decision on the tender bids valued at Rs. 55 million  were to be taken . The defense secretary enlisting Kamani  awarded the two tenders to wheeler dealer Wegapitiya , and  went abroad. 

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