Maithri cancels super luxury toilet and fittings worth Rs. 580 million ordered by MR - yet under the contract SL must pay –COPE

(Lanka-e-News -27.Feb.2016, 11.30PM)  Here is a report that deserves a place in the Guinness book of records solely and wholly because it reveals how cruel and wicked a leader of a country can become when he is possessed of inordinate powers and rapacious greed.

During the brutal corrupt reign of Mahinda Rajapakse for his personal use and luxurious lifestyle  , he had given an order costing  about US dollars 4 million  (about Rupees 580 million !) to instal  a super luxury bed , and to include  a  bathroom fitted with all the latest fiitings in a plane belonging to the Sri Lankan airlines.Though the incumbent president Maithripala Sirisena had cancelled this contract , according to Ranjan Ramanayake , the deputy  minister of   social services and welfare , the country is liable to pay this colossal sum under the contractual terms.

At  the  media briefing held on 25th afternoon at the UNP headquarters , Sri Kotha, Ranjan Ramanayake revealing the report of COPE as its member went on to comment as follows :

‘Our ex president had told a newspaper today , that he earlier on spent most of his time in the service of the  people, but now he is spending his time in jails, Commissions and courts. 

It is owing to the corruption  and frauds committed during his reign that he has to face these traumas and dramas.It is last week , the COPE took up the subject of the SL airlines for discussion. 

Today what we are going to present for discussion is the super luxury bathroom with the  complete  latest fittings , and  the  super luxury bed  imported for the Sri Lanka airlines service , that is for Air Lanka  by the ex president . All these were to be installed in the front area of the airline. These fittings alone are valued at US dollars four million!

In order to fix and install these luxury fittings and bed , the plane has to be left idling for two days at the relevant airport . Though Maithripala Sirisena has cancelled this contract,  according to the contractual terms , these expenses have to be borne by our country. It is only top notch leaders  of most prosperous and advanced countries who use  such luxury fittings and enjoy super luxury bed comforts .Our country cannot bear these colossal expenses. 

Hence , it is because the ex president resorted to this type of profligacy  of thisw magnitude with utter disregard to the  people’s burning needs that he has to spend his time in jails, Commissions , courts , bribery and corruption commission, and the presidential committee inquiring into grave frauds and corruption.’

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by     (2016-02-28 00:34:51)