Dr.Sudath Gunasekara
4.10.2017.
Mr. President why don’t you sack Ranil Wickramasinha and Ravi Karunanayaka at least now and order them to be arrested along with Arjuna Mahendram and Arjuna Alosyas pending legal action going by the latest glaring revelations of serious crimes committed by them in the bank sector and the country in general collectively, as disclosed before the CB scam Commission appointed by you.
CB was directly under Ranil at the time of these crimes were committed. It had been taken over by him from the Finance Ministry for the first time in history. You should have objected and not allowed this unprecedented transfer to take place as the Executive President at that time. There appears to be a close nexus between Ranils decision to take the Central Bank under him and appointing Arjuna Mahendran (his close friend and school mate and a non-citizen of this country) as Governor and the subsequent mega loot of public funds. Ranil is the man who got a non-citizen of this country appointed as the Governor against your objections. As such I opine him to be the key man behind this unprecedented robbery. Don’t you realize at least now that you have been led up a gum tree by you trusted PM for him to come to power and remain in power by hook or crook.
In this backdrop are you also not responsible for this crime as you are the one who appointed him as Prime Minister even violating the Constitution at the behest of both external and internal pressure, for which I am sure you must be undergoing grave compunction these days. You being the President from whom this man has got his appointment as the Governor of the nations ‘prime financial and monetary hub’ of the nation surely should have got him to subscribe to that basic requirement under schedule 4 of the Constitution of the Republic before finally you place your signature to his appointment letter. At least your Secretary whoever it may have been should have got that done. You could also have removed him subsequently for not complying with that Constitutional and legal requirement. In the circumstances don’t you think that you have miserably failed to get Arjuna to subscribe to that most important requirements stipulated in the 4th Schedule to the Constitution, which all public servants are required to comply with. Arjuna has admitted before the Commission that he did not sign it. My assumption is Ranil may have intentionally asked him not to sing the oath as he may have had a sinister plan up his sleeves to do this scam. I do not know as to whether even the bank notes he singed, apart from all other underhand work he has done are legally valid. These are serious matters that need a thorough public scrutiny.
Arjuna Mahendran must have already revealed the roles played by Ranil and Ravi in this mega loot even by influencing the other State Banks. He may have spilled the beans to prove his innocence, I wonder. If I was caught red handed like this I would have committed suicide by now or at least resigned forthwith for robing public money like this. Knowing our politicians, particularly Ranil, so well, I don’t think they will do either. That is why I request you to take necessary actions immediately against these looters. That I think is the only way you can get exonerated from this sin and go before the people keeping your head above your shoulder wearing the same white suite.
In fairness to what you have so far done regarding this issue the whole country thank you for appointing this Commission as it has enabled the country to know who the real looters are, who actually have manipulated it and how much public money has been robbed by this Alibaba and his thieves. Usually these kind of nefarious things are done behind the curtain. But in this case they have done it quite openly and directly in person not only by aiding and abetting but also by doing the real act of robing. I am unable to understand as to what strengths and forces are there behind this mega drama.
Finally I would also like to remind the President that the ongoing constitutional betrayal will be thousand or even more times far more serious than the CB scam if he fails to stop it as he has already promised the Mahasangha, the Guardian Gods of this country that he will not allow it. He being the Executive President is the only man who can do it with one word. If he does it the whole country will be with him. If he does not do that the whole country will rise in revolt, not only against him but also against the whole Government. No force on earth will be able to suppress or stop that and finally they will win.
The money lost due to the CB scam could be recovered or earned one day. But if the proposed Constitution is allowed to be enacted that will be the end of the 2500 year old Sinhala Buddhist civilization in this country. This is why I say that the whole nation must rise in one voice irrespective of party differences against this constitutional scandal until it is withdrawn by its perpetrators.
This is my final call to all patriotic forces. If you miss this chance you will miss all what is yours for ever.