Ranil rejects Rs. 50 m from Avant Garde owner!

 

Thursday, 01 January 2015 

Retired Army Major Nissanka Senadhipathi, who has amassed wealth from his Avant Garde Security service while being a close friend of defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has tried to give Rs. 50 million to UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe through a key figure of the party.

Despite the UNP’s shortage of cash to spend on electioneering, Mr. Wickremesinghe has turned down the money without thinking twice.

The key UNP figure has tried to explain to his leader about Nissanka, who hails from a traditional UNP family, but, Ranil remained steadfast, saying, “He may be a UNPer. But, I know very well how he has earned that money. Our party does not need that sort of money. If we do not have money, let’s stop the campaign. I am not prepared to do the campaign by accepting money from such persons.”

When he was told about Ranil’s response, Nissanka has told the key UNP figure, “They have now forgotten that Maj. Prasanna Ginige and I killed students of Embilipitiya in 1989 in order to protect the UNP, and not for our personal gains.”

Customers reject SLT calendar!

 

Thursday, 01 January 2015 

A majority of Sri Lanka Telecom customers yesterday (31) rejected SLT’s 12-page calendar for 2015 which is to be distributed at its teleshops island wide until today, say SLT sources.

The calendar’s pages have the pictures of Mattala airport, Magampura port in Hambantota, Nelum Pokuna, Nelum Kuluna, Nenasala, southern expressway, scenes near Sri Jayewardenepura parliament and of other government projects. Consumers have rejected, saying they have no need to see things which they already see every day over television.

SLT has spent more than Rs. 100 million on these calendars, at the rate of Rs. 5,000 per calendar.

It has printed a separate calendar, with beautiful pictures of coral reefs, to be distributed among its employees, as they cannot be hoodwinked by government boastings.