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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Wednesday, September 27, 2017
On enhancing and sustaining good governance
- Including a flashback to a pre-presidential election thought of 2005, with reflections on a statement made in Parliament by a former Finance Minister, 40 years ago
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Flashback 2005
“My question to all people’s representatives in the legislature and key
public officials is this. Was the legislation referred to by the former
Minister brought to Parliament? Was it passed? If not what statutory
measures exist – through either the existing codes or specific statutes –
which will act as a deterrent to the type of actions and resultant
risks to the country? In lighter vein, the money wasted on this project
could have funded millions of bags of free fertiliser and millions upon
millions of glasses of free milk! However on a serious note, if that
money was ploughed into rural roads, buses, access to safe drinking
water, electricity, rural schools and hospitals – almost 30 years ago –
which was even before we “opened the economy” or knew what
“privatisation” meant – even to bash the bad ones around, we could have
bridged income as well as digital divides and reduced the regional
disparities about which there is so much natural concern today. Then the
pledges of today’s political parties, about fertiliser or milk would
have been relatively redundant.” – Ranel Wijesinha, November 2005.
