Gotabaya Rajapaksa and wife leave for USA
Posted by ONLANKA Newsroom on December 26, 2022 - 3:30 pm

FILE PHOTO – (Photo Credit: Eranga Jayawardena / AP)
Former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and four of his family members left for the United States this morning (December 26), airport sources said.
They said the former president’s spouse Ioma Rajapaksa, daughter-in-law Sewwandi Rajapaksa, his son Manoj Rajapaksa and grandchild were among those who left for the USA at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) this morning.
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Aney, Gahapu padekuth nehe – Bere paluwakuth nehe. But thanks for coming back to give an opportunity to take you to the court to those who claimed to have mountains of evidence of wrong doing, but never could produce anything. Bye!
Good bye good riddance and stick to your former job as a Jet petrol station attendant USA which is more suits to your intelligent. Thanks for your ” splendor and prosperity” slogan as a result the country is on its knees.
Ranith,
My Dear,
Hope you will stick to your ‘profession’ as an international Toilet cleaner earning more than Exec P + PM.
Ranjith, you should let SL society and its leaders alone; we can look after ourselves while you are inhaling white man’s fart fumes everyday.
But, not to worry about the country being on the knees for long. We have Dhanish Ali and Wasanth Mudalige waiting on the wings. New blood, youth and new thinking to usher Sri Lanka to prosperity through 5* democracy. Only a matter of persuading one to run for the presidency. Cardinal should be able to do that bit.