ANY MINISTER PROTECTING UNDERWORLD WILL BE PUNISHED – PM
Action will be taken against any minister if found to be protecting underworld leaders, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday.
The Prime Minister made this comment replying to Joint Opposition MP Udaya Padma Shantha Gunasekara who queried on newspaper reports which said that a minister has employed five underworld leaders as his private bodyguards.
The PM said he instructed to ask from the relevant newspaper as to how they received the information as it has not come from the Police Spokesman and check whether it was true.
“You were the people who protected rogues, underworld leaders and rapists. You could not remove even the Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman who raped many women. How can you speak like this and what is the right you have to point the finger at us?,” the PM said.
Law and Order Deputy Minister Nalin Bandara said he would look into the allegation and update Parliament. “We did not nurture the underworld. Where did these underworld leaders hide during the last regime? Who were behind them? We will reveal to this House” he said.
(Source: Daily News – By Disna Mudalige and Amali Mallawaarachchi)
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hang them
RW,
The entire Cabinet should be punished, mate.
When are you going to sack Sujeeva S who is in the payroll of Mendis Arakku?
Any Minister….. also thr Prime Minister
President Sirisena says hang drug traffickers and you say hang Ministers protecting underworld leaders. Remember we have alone in the Parliment over 200 Ministers. That means we have to import rope from China. Who is the Mimister who is going to make money on this rope deal.
Another promise. What will be next. Paradise in 2075.
Volkswagen factory
Mega city
Economic hub
Three state of the art hospitals.
Economic super zone in 2050
No beggars in trains
No travelling in foot board of trains
What action can you take?
A State Minister from your party has accepted corrupt money from Mendis Arakku.
What have you done about it?
Your friend, a great Financial Brain from Singapore, screwed the nation of many billions of Rupees.
What have you done about it?
RW, we are DISGUSTED beyond belief with your cock-and-bull stories.
At the next elections, we will ensure your defeat in Parliament.
PM what do you mean by underworld