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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, June 5, 2017
Anura Yapa, Go Home! You Failed Miserably
An Open Letter to Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, Minister of Disaster Management, Sri Lanka
Lives
of innocent children were taken not by the rain, but by the inaction,
negligence and failure of you and your ministry who are responsible and
accountable for managing disasters in Sri Lanka.
Are
the lives of the common people so expendable to the insensitive rulers
of this country? Where are those comrades who vowed to take action if
the Yahapalana regime fail to deliver their promise? Where are you? Wake
up! What are you waiting for? Your silence is deafening! Hold the man
accountable, he who so miserably failed to do his job. Ask him to
resign. Ask for a competent person to take charge of the Ministry of
Disaster Management, immediately!
Anura, were you scraping coconut for one year?
It
has been a year since the last year’s flood and some of the displaced
are still displaced. For one long year, you didn’t do anything to
prepare for this year’s monsoon. You failed to organise your ministry
and the relevant departments. You failed to coordinate with other
relevant ministries. You failed to analyse historical weather data. You
failed to analyse the geological conditions. You failed to identify the
risk-zones. You failed to plan for the worst. You failed to inform the
people about the imminent disaster. You failed to evacuate the people,
your own people, people who voted for you, people of your country of
which you are a minister! You failed to mobilise the government
officers, the thousands of Gramasevakas, the Divisional Secretaries and
the Police to evacuate people to designated safe-zones. Hell, you failed
to even designate any safe-zones for people to run to! What kind of a
disaster management minister are you?
You
failed to equip the hospitals in target areas with medicine, doctors,
nurses and support staff in case the worst happen. You failed to stock
food, clothing and essentials at designated relief centres. You failed
to use the media to inform the people in risk-zones in time on the
imminent threat. You failed to use the Police to evacuate at least the
children to safe-zones. You failed to build a state-of-the-art
monitoring system to track the weather and water-level around the
country. You failed to build a system to track the actual ground-level
situation. You failed to implement a plan when the worst happen. You
failed to build a system to coordinate the relief efforts. You failed.
You failed. You failed. Your ministry’s website is a disgrace. (ICTA,
before you send balloons up… can you do something useful for a change?
Like at least building useful digital tools for critical government
ministries.)
Anura, was Mexico more important than your own country?
What
kind of a minister gives speeches about disaster management at a
conference in Mexico when there is a disaster happening in his own
country? You are the highest authority for disaster management in this
country. This country and its people should be your utmost priority. You
should’ve taken the first flight home the moment you heard about the
disaster. Hell, if you predicted this disaster, you shouldn’t have left
in the place! What kind of wisdom were you mumbling in Mexico, when you
clearly couldn’t plan for a recurring monsoon in your own country for
one whole year? Those conference organisers must be real geniuses to
invite somebody like you to talk to them.