President Rajapaksa: Man With Credibility Completely Lost

By Nagananda Kodituwakku -December 31, 2014 

Nagananda Kodituwakku

Once a man has lost his credibility, in law, no weight whatsoever would be placed on any utterances made by him.

In his 2005 Election Manifesto Rajapaksa, when campaigning for the Presidency for the first time, with full support of the JVP, promised to the people to abolish the Executive Presidency (page 97 – 2005 manifesto). Now the very person promises to do the same, within one year in the event of his re-election to Office for the third time (page 17 – 2015 manifesto).

Will any prudent person take any notice of this promise?

Then again in the 2010 manifesto, when contesting for the second term,Rajapaksa promised to take ‘whatever measures’ needed to eliminate frauds, corruption and malpractices. But what he did in practice was completely the opposite.

For instance he made the Auditor General redundant and irrelevant. For the last few years the Auditor General has not been able to audit public offices and publish its annual report, as no one seems to be taking him seriously. This disrespect to the office of the Auditor General has opened floodgates for mass scale corrupt practices running into billions of rupees.Read More