Marapana and Kiriella should resign after the Brutal Attack on Female Students

Oct 31, 2015

The Brutal attack on the Higher National Diploma inAccountancy by the Yahaplana Government sent shock waves around the country and the international community.

The immediate reaction was that there was no difference between MS and the MR government.

The NFF MP Jayantha Samaraweera was quick to say that this government is trying to suppress the demands of the people with force. The problem with this government is that the wrong people who have no clue of a particular subject is given important positions.

Lukshman Kiriella is the Minister of Higher Education and Highways. What is the connection between these two ministries? What does Kiriella know about higher education and furthermore he does not spent sufficient time on the more important issue, our future knowledge capital of our country.

His solution seems to be to unleash the police to attack female students and hoping the problem will go away. Marapana and Kiriella must be not having Children of their own to order such a brutal attack on female students.

Both have gone to decent schools in the city, won't they taught the values that their schools so proudly protect? As UNP sources say Thilak Marapana has no moral right to be in Parliament, he deserted the UNP for years and even appeared for the notorious Nissanka Senadthipathy for a big fee, was put on the national list by the Prime Minister ignoring many others who stood by the party for years.

On the other hand Minister Kiriella has no time for higher education, given that he is holding a portfolio that half of the cabinet wants to get hold of for obvious reasons.

This attack is a shame on the Prime Minister and his wife, a university Professor who talks about women's rights all over the place.

Good for her to teach her husband and his colleagues how to treat women decently, before she preaches on the academic stage about women's rights.

The way this government is going it won't be too long before people start saying there is no difference between the Rajapakse and the Sirisena Government.

It is time for FUTA to get tough with the government and get them to address their issues without resorting to brutal force. If not they have only themselves to blame.

If Sarath Amunugame' was the Minister like before, nothing like this would have been tolerated. President Sirisena without being a hapless bystander should intervene.

As MP Badula Gunawardana MP pointed out recently there is something radically wrong with this UNP government, that he cannot understand. They have simply got lost.

Very Disappointing Sir.

For Good Governance