‘Divaina’ journalist extorted money from Nimal Lansa?

Aug 28, 2016

The mere mention of the name of internal affairs deputy minister Nimal Lansa brings to mind the police’s having raided his home and searched for narcotic drugs during the Rajapaksa regime and then Mahinda Rajapaksa visiting him at his home to soothe him. Anyhow, Lansa is now with the the incumbent ‘Yahapaalana’ government too, and is known by the entire country to be linked to various rackets. One of them is human trafficking to Australia by boat.

In the past, ‘Divaina’ wrote many a page about this human trafficking racket. Most of the information contained in those articles was correct, and Lansa must have found them to be quite a headache. Suddenly, articles and exposures about Lansa’s human trafficking came to a halt. Therafter, ‘Divaina’ never mentioned about a country named Australia or a person named Lansa.

 

Recently, the CID received a complaint that the journalist who had written those articles had extorted money from Lansa in order to stop his exposures through ‘Divaina’. Soon after hearing this, the journalist in question has started attacking the CID by faking a front of appearing on behalf of the so-called war heroes linked to the murder of Lasantha Wickramatunga and the assault on Upali Tennakoon. Journalists who know him say he is trying to do to the CID the same he had tried with Lansa.

 

This ‘Divaina’ journalist is Saman Gamage, known by the country as a ‘patriot’. Keerthi Warnakulasuriya and other journalists of ‘Divaina’ say it is surprising that Saman had prospered so much now, from his humble beginning during which he did not even have the bus fare to come to Colombo from Matugama. Also, he is now angry with all other journalists who are getting news from the police. That is because he suspects them to have told the CID all about his secrets.