(Lanka-e-News -08.Sep.2015, 4.45PM) Liquor license No. R.B. 13 A issued by the Excise department to the Government information department to run a restaurant for Sri Lanka media personnel alias ‘The Press club’ had been granted to a private henchman since 2007 without calling for suitable bidders in a transparent manner and selecting the best, thereby depriving the state of ite revenue by many millions of rupees, according to reports reaching Lanka e news. Even now, the Press club is being run at No.30, Olcott mawatha , Fort , and the stooge Nimal Abeywardena is still using the liquor license No. R.B. 13 A , to carry on a flourishing liquor business.
According to the Government information department’s relevant file ,the previous director generals of the State information department as far back as from the year 2007 until the year 2015 , have recommended the liquor license to this individual without following proper procedure .The worst part ? and the most unpardonable corruption tainting these deals is, no agreement whatsoever has been signed with the henchman Nimal Abeywardena in regard to this license issued.
The crucial question is : what happened to the many millions of rupees lost by the government via these corrupt deals by issuing the license sans following procedures duly and whose pockets did these colossal sums of monies go into ? Even though an audit investigation was conducted into this , that was suppressed.
This malpractice and grave irregularity of granting a liquor license of the government department to an outsider without choosing the right contractor duly, has not only engendered many millions of rupees loss to the state revenue but flagrantly and outrageously violated procedures and laws .In other words , a grave financial irregularity by these ex Director Generals has been committed detrimental to the State and the people.
The State information deprtment was launched in 1948; and it is after the appointment of Dr.Dharshani Gunatileke as the Directress general to this department ,following the advent of the new government of good governance, this corrupt activity that had been carried on for 8 long years was uncovered.
Those media coolies of course who were pleased when a free bottle of liquor is offered to them by Nimal Abeywardena whenever they visited the club kept silent in abject surrender to liquor and in keeping with their squalor.
The people who brought about the welcome change via victory of the government of good governance are now eagerly waiting and watching ,what welcome change ‘good governance’ is going to effect on their behalf , by conducting an investigation duly summoning the director generals involved since 2007 , with a view to punishing those culprits who were responsible for the multi milllion rupees loss to country’s revenue.
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