Mahinda is exacting a grand scheme of revenge – Mangala
Minister of Finance and Media Mangala Samaraweera stated that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is currently scheming to exact revenge on the general public who voted to oust him from power in 2015 through his attempts misrepresent acts of the current government.
In response to a declaration made by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa who stated that the people of Sri Lanka are being grossly cheated on through the privatization of the Hambantota port, Minister Samaraweera stated that the former president cannot forget the magnitude of injustice the general populace had to face through the wastage of natural resources by the sale of them to foreign nations during the Rajapaksa regime.
Minister Samaraweera further stated that the former president had leased out one terminal of the Colombo port at a percentage of 85% and 15% to the Chinese government whilst drafting agreements to lease the Hambantota port proportionately to the Colombo port agreement in 2014.
He also pointed out that, had the agreement for the Hambantota port drafted by the former president gone through, the country would have been further indebted with a sum exceeding 350 million USD.
In his statements, he also mentioned that the during his tenure which spanned almost 10 years, Mahinda Rajapaksa fostered a culture where people differentiated themselves based on religion, cast and creed whilst harboring an social environment filled with national disharmony.
Minister Samaraweera also stated that after investigations carried out on close relatives of the former president, the government and judiciary are currently in custody of valuable goods exceeding Rs.500 million in value that were illegally obtained by members of the Rajapaksa family during their time in power.
He also stated that it was humorous to recall the sentiments expressed by the former president as in his words, he would “cut his own stomach” if he or any member of his family were caught stealing even a rupee of the peoples wealth.
The Minister of Finance further stated that the immense effort expended by former President Rajapaksa to mislead the public by feeding them lies that the government is attempting to sell resources of the country to foreign investors and privatize Sri Lankan assets, is a unhealthily fostered act of revenge he is exacting on the general populace.
(Ada Derana)
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samaraweera i so confused one wonders as to whther he is capable of handling the finance ministry for when he makes statements he does not know whether he is dealing with dollars or rupees, Then he is not sure whether he talks of millions or billions. before he makes further candid declearations he ought to get his unit straightened out.
We have been told ever so often about the rajapasa clan and his dealings designed to rob and after two years yahalanya has yet to find any evidence of fe violations through the central bank, nor any evidence of tampering with the cadh flow in epf etf accounts nor the nsb. these institutes hoard billions of unclaimed deposits which ravi at one stage tried toembessel.
Finally if Rajapaksas did rob then sirisena woukd know more about it than smamrawwera or sb dissnakaya who made up rajapaksas cabinat.
MR at least gave us one coal power station if not our ecconomy will be worse than Greece
Hon Mangala S is proving to be as incompetent as all other Ministers in Yamapalanaya.
Hon Mangala S is advised to spend time in his personal LGBGIQ issues prior to offering solutions to day to day issues of the population.
You are allies to zionist America!
You are not at all bothered about the law abiding people of Sri Lanka. (if you dont remember the name of the country you govern that is it!)
You are trying to bring back the LTTE back
You have unsubscribed Sri Lanka from being in solidarity with Palestine
You are protecting the hora Rajapakse family! totally angry about that.
You are building a government with a nasty person (Ranil Wickramasinghe) who is 1000 times worst than Hon. Former President Mahinda Rajapakse.
Buddhist and Muslim communities are losing their identities and other cultural values they hold. As you took office on that fateful day, you made Sri Lanka do what no other country will do- suck up to America and sign more than 20 MoUs in 48 hours of coming in to power.
But I am not surprised because there were deal makers in government even from the president’s office with imperialist schemers- even though we were independent from 1948. There is the Rothschild estate right next to the official presidential palace in Kandy city. So corruption does not surprise me at all.
But I am really mad at you because you promissed yahapalanaya and gave the country a more shitty thing.
Dont expect to win the next votes, atleast not the genuine way- I know you won with hora chanda along with Mr. Dirty (not Mr. Clean) if not there is no way you would have won straight up.