A Brief Colonial History Of Ceylon(SriLanka)
Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Sunday, June 18, 2017
Open letter to the chairman and board of Sri Lankan Airlines
I
am writing in disgust, after reading that SriLankan Airlines had lost
Rs. 22 billion because of poor management and indecisiveness. Thank God
the Cabinet has summoned you. Now face the music. The Prime Minister
cannot save you there. For your knowledge we spend only half of your
loss on public welfare. We laughed and ridiculed the previous
administration for messing the airline, you have proved you are no
better, you are in fact worse.
To begin, the only qualification you two have to be on the airline and
on the board is that you go on holidays with the Prime Minister; the
CEO, because he is Charitha Ratwatte’s brother. When the board wanted
the CEO’s probation extended for poor performance, the Prime Minister
threatened the board. The directors agreed and continued.
We all know your only experience is retailing garments and selling
coffee on the high streets of Colombo. How do we expect you or the CEO
to turn around a bankrupt company? Both of you have no experience at
all. This is not your private property nor the Prime Minister’s. You
don’t even listen to him now according to the Minister in charge.
Mr. Chairman, the airline belongs to the public and it is an asset of
the people of this country. Your performance as chairman has been very
disappointing. You have to date not prosecuted anyone from the previous
administration for mismanagement. Instead, you are being accused of
doing business with a former Sri Lankan cricketer, buying spare parts
for the airline. His BIL was the former CEO of the airline. So how can
we expect you to take action against the former CEO, other than allowing
the party to continue? Some of the former directors belong to the Royal
College Club or relatives of Ratwatte or you. Because of that, the
Weliamuna Report was thrown to the dogs.
The CEO of the Airline has no respect for the board according to
Minister Kabir Hashim. He does not even listen to the Minister. If this
is true, kick him out. We know you can’t, his brother will protect him.
Both of them will have to get a home overseas if this Government
changes, the way they do things now.
Anyway, we the public have had enough with you two. There could be legal
action against this gross mismanagement and asking the court to
intervene. We are also asking the President to appoint a Presidential
Commission to inquire into the affairs of the airline, especially the
events surrounding the aircraft cancellation that cost the airline more
than the bond fraud. If you have any shame, please go home. Let not what
happened to Mahendran befall you!
Ajith de Silva
Courtesy: http://www.ft.lk/
Courtesy: http://www.ft.lk/