Sri Lanka’s Sugar buddies

President Sirisena or Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, or for that matter former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, cannot so easily exonerate themselves from their general record of protecting bribe takers and corruption beneficiaries, and allegations of their own implications in some of them.

by Rajan Philips- May 6, 2018

( May 6, 2018, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) For starters today, I was planning this secular prayer: Let us first say thanks for small mercies – for keeping Ravi Karunanayake out of the cabinet in last Tuesday’s reshuffle. Two days later the thunderbolt struck –the President’s Chief of Staff and the Timber Corporation Chairman caught counting bribe cash in the carpark at Taj Samudra. How brazen has corruption become? We knew it had already climbed high. But thanks again for small mercies – to the Bribery Commission officials who arrested the two government thieves. The Bribery Commission is having better luck with real time culprits than it has been having with rogues of the past. I will spare the details of the arrests and the arrestees which are already virally known, and turn to their inauspicious effects on the new session of parliament that is scheduled to open on Tuesday, May 8.

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