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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Wednesday, August 2, 2017
Reconsider PM Celebrations - TISL
Transparency
International Sri Lanka (TISL) is extremely concerned by reports
quoting a letter from the Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs,
dated 27 July, which instructs all District Secretaries to host a series
of events from 3 August, to celebrate Prime Minister Ranil
Wickremesinghe's 40 years in public service.
If the instructions contained in the letter are to be followed, it will
require considerable resources to be redirected for the purpose of
organising the events. This would include over 1300 Bodhi Puja
ceremonies, alms for 1000 monks and religious observances at kovils,
churches and mosques across the island amongst other things. This would
place a severe resource burden on Divisional and District Secretariats,
whose primary function is to ensure public service delivery.
Whilst celebrating public service is not to be ignored, given the scale
of what has been planned, TISL respectfully requests the Honourable
Prime Minister to instruct the cancellation of these celebrations or
alternatively, organise such celebrations without public resources,
human or monetary.
TISL wishes to remind the authorities concerned that using public
resources for personal gain amounts to corruption and that it runs
counter to the spirit of good governance.