Joint Opposition wants PM and UNP sacked from Govt.

The Joint Opposition said yesterday that with the release of the report of the Bond Commission, what the President should do first and foremost as a good governance government is immediately remove UNP Cabinet ministers including the Prime Minister. 

UPFA Parliamentarian Mahindananda Aluthgamage claimed that the United National Party (UNP), which was unable to even pay the electricity bill at Sirikotha, had given each of its candidates Rs. 5 million from the “bond money” for the general election.

Speaking at a press conference, he said that the Joint Opposition had repeatedly pointed out that this was the biggest act of financial fraud in Sri Lanka’s history and the only one carried out with state sponsorship. 

The former minister charged that the entire leadership of the UNP was involved in the bond scam and that the party had no moral right to stay in a good governance government after such a massive financial fraud.

Aluthgamage said that the Joint Opposition had lodged a complaint on 26 August 2016 stating that the Prime Minister was responsible for this fraud and warned that legal action against “Asia’s Best Finance Minister” should not be limited to action under the Bribery Act. 

However, he said that they would be paying close attention to the actions of the Attorney General.