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Former Kaduwela Mayor issues challenge to Wimal Weerawansa
7Dec By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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Former Kaduwela Mayor issues challenge to Wimal Weerawansa

A challenge was issued by former mayor of Kaduwela G.H. Buddhadasa to Wimal Weerawansa, at a media briefing held yesterday December 07. He stated that Wimal Weerawansa and Co wants to contest separately due to the contract Wimal has undertaken to ensure the victory of the common enemy. According to the former mayor, Wimal Weerawansa’s party today consists of him and his wife Shashi Weerawansa, as the former deputy leader, former secretary and national organiser have left. He further states that he thinks that one of his members from Matara is going to join the UNP and that ‘Wimal Weerawansa is like a leech on the back of Mahinda Rajapaksa’. He said that Mahinda needs to realise ‘what happen when a leech feeds off’ him and that he needs to keep in mind that this is just a precur...
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President’s former secretary to be summoned as witness in Bribery Commission case
11Nov By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
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President’s former secretary to be summoned as witness in Bribery Commission case

An order to summon the president’s former secretary, P.B. Abeykoon, was given to the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption by the Colombo Chief Magistrate. The order was made as the former secretary to the president is a witness in a case filed against MP Johnston Fernando. This move is due to the Assets Declaration of Members of Parliament issued by P.B. Abeykoon during his tenure of office as the president’s secretary. The document was presented before court as evidence to the case. Asset declarations of parliamentarians available at the Presidential Secretariat are to be produced before court on an order made by Colombo Chief Magistrate, Lal Ranasinghe Bandara. A case was filed by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption aga...
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