President’s Secretary resigns

Secretary to the President P.B. Abeykoon resigned due to personal reasons yesterday.  

He tendered his letter of resignation to the President on Friday. The senior SLAS officer and former Public Administration Ministry Secretary was appointed as the Secretary to the then newly-elected President Maithripala Sirisena on 10 January 2015.

Abeykoon joined the Sri Lanka Administrative Service in 1982 and started his career as an Assistant Government Agent at Gomarankadawela (Trincomalee District). Then he moved to the Department of Immigration and Emigration and worked as an Assistant Controller and later Deputy Controller. 

Subsequently, he was appointed as the Deputy Director of the Combined Services Department of the Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs where he served until 2000.