How Former Defense Secretary escaped arrest?

Saturday, 30 May 2015

Many SLFP MPs knew the former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa would not get arrested by the FCID because of his close links to Sagala and Kavan Rathnayake from Deniyaya.

Sagala is Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Chief of Staff and his brother Kavan, Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd. (Lake House) Chairman.

Now Gotabaya has fortified it for a while with an interim order.

Sagala Rathnayake for some reason, despite being critical of the UNP leader during the leadership crisis within the UNP in 2012 and did next to nothing to bring President Maithripala Sirisena to power, has got round the Prime Minister.

He is now in the process of tapping young businessman for cash to support his electoral work. Many have given him cash support because he is the Premier’s Chief of Staff. His brother Kavan who was not even a UNP supporter, but has been given two very good appointments in the Sirisena government. It is known in the open Gotabaya Rajapaksa was very close to the two brothers Kavan and Sagala .

A former Deputy Minister of Power, Sagala Rathnayaka had, according SL sources, got a land problem sorted and a land through the former defense secretary and Kavan had also got work done through him when Gotabaya Rajapaksa was in his full element as the de facto no 2 during brother Mahinda’s Administration. It was well known in SLFP circles that Gotabaya Rajapakse was using Sagala and Kavan to convince Ranil Wickramesinghe to contest the Presidency and to collect inside information about the campaign. Fortunately common sense prevailed in the UNP and Ranil Wickremasinghe gave way for Sirisena to contest as the common candidate. If the UNP had gone alone and had Ranil Wickremesinghe contested, the UNP would have ended up in shambles and Sajith Premadasa and Tiran Alles would be running the UNP today