In my blog yesterday, I pointed out the
sheer hypocrisy of a man entrusted with portfolio of health, who uses every
moment of limelight to sing his praises, as if to hide a multitude of personal
failings. Page 3 of today’s (Sept 26th 2013) ADA Newspaper, www.ada.lk corroborates the report yesterday, but with
an even more fanciful statement that 15 generations could live in a first world
country on account of the money he was offered. Somehow one doubts his knowledge
on that score despite his numerous trips overseas, having been underwritten by the
GOSL, and therefore free for him. So he thinks a free bribe means just that, free
to do anything for life!! Pity the country for such leaders.
Today we see
corroboration of the statements I made independent of any knowledge of the link
in advance and justifies quite clearly my point of view.
For Sri Lanka as a
nation to have Cabinet Ministers, and General Secretary of the SLFP to boot
behaving in such personal glorification, and downright lying, when it affects
Sri Lanka’s image all over the world, which will put off any foreign investor
who does not wish to be associated with a country where their leaders continue
to lie, as they know their voter base believe in such lies, so as to credit
them with sainthood in my book is traitorous and should be punished.
Every Health
Minister in every country on the face of the Earth MUST BE conscious about the
Health of their Nation and do something to improve the health. That does not
garner person holding such office any more plaudits. So to make political
capital of him doing his job (the example here being enacting legislation or
procedures within the law, so as to have illustrations of packets of cigarettes
with photos of the consequences of cigarette smoking is a normal part of his job,
and in most developed countries these are already in place. So why not in Sri Lanka?
Taking credit and making
statements that he would lay his life down for this is just play acting and playing
to the gallery, which is reprehensible and should be scorned, as it put into disrepute
the honorable intentions of a person doing his job.
It is time that the
Media grow up, and call to task, in the interests of the Nation, the apparent conflict
between their responsibility to report the news, to point out to the reader the
inconsistencies of statements, and the detrimental effect such statements could
result for the nation as a whole. They must put Country before ‘Individuals’ so
that in future, people will not take the ‘spinelessness’ of the media for granted
to make outrageous statements for personal advancement at the expense of the best
interests of the Country.
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