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
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Malik Samarawickrama before the bond commission
Development
strategy and international trade Malik Samarawickrama is due to be
summoned before the presidential commission investigating the treasury
bond issue next week. The evidence given before the commission by
foreign affairs minister Ravi Karunanayake last week was controversial.
Malik had hoped to see Ravi blamed for everything. It is also him who is
aiding the joint opposition with its no-confidence motion against Ravi.
As the entire country knows, ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa and most MPs
in the JO are not much interested in this matter. But, Malik is very
much interested, because he wants to see that Ravi is blamed for
everything and to wash his hands off the matter. We do not say Ravi is a
baby, or we do not want to whitewash him. If he has done anything
wrong, he should be punished. However, he is not connected to this bond
issue matter, and he has to take the blame for someone else’s sins.
It was more than a decade ago when frauds first happened in bond issues.
It continued during the Ajith Nivard Cabraal period in the Central Bank
too. The only difference is that Cabraal did it with millions, but
Malik did it with billions. If an extensive investigation is conducted, a
sizeable number in the JO too, should confess their sins.
UNP sources say Malik took PM Ranil Wickremesinghe for a ride over this
bond sale issue. He laid the groundwork by telling him that there was no
other way to pay back a Rs. two billion loan obtained for propaganda
work of the presidential election. CCTV footage bears witness that
Malik, the then UNP chairman and not even a minister, was there when the
bond issue concluded. He had no reason to be there. We do not know to
what extent the commission will proceed, but many more exposures are
likely next week.