It is a crying shame that the AGs
department is busy trying to impress the leadership on one’s merits for
promotion to AG whilst they should all be pulled up for dereliction of duty!
Who is to pull them up? The current AG wants to quietly retire without rocking
the boat and get some other sinecure that helps him schmooze at a level beyond
his pay grade!
The Minister of Justice is trying to
hold on to his job by using all sorts of side shows to distract people from the
real problem of his Tax Fraud. Millions of unpaid income taxes from fees he has
received from all manner of dubious persons! He thinks the people who have paid
him fees have not reported it to the authorities as they needed a tax deduction
from their profits, for over charged legal fees. These fees in turn have NOT been recorded as income.
In the meantime the AGs department is
grossly undermanned, under resourced and underfunded being tasked with some of
the most important affairs of state, and the blame all falls on the Government.
I fault the Minister for not bringing his request front and center at Cabinet,
instead of taking pot shots at the other Jonah in the pack, called the Cabinet
Spokesman Rajitha Senarathna, who has a penchant for lying through his nether
regions.
In the end due to the fault of the AGs department,
the Govt. of the day could fall, back into the hands of MARA! Is this the plan hatched
by the Minister of Justice? We will know soon enough, as RW has already pulled him
up!
All these games are very well, if not for
the fact that they are playing with the lives of 20 million Sri Lankans and their
future.
It is time the PM intervened, get the Justice
Minister fired, and beef up the AGs department, by giving them all the resources
necessary to bring to book all those who have broken the law in the cases currently
being handled, but who have hitherto been unable to gather sufficient evidence to
convict.
The true colors of a Country of Good Governance
will only be shown, when the law is followed to convict those who have committed
massive frauds and crimes against the state, depriving millions of people of Sri
Lanka from their livelihood
It is best to appoint the next AG from outside of the Dept. as you need someone outside of the Box to instill some new values and objectives to an institution that has lost its way.
ReplyDeleteThe behaviour of all these additional Solicitor Generals proves the point. There is just too much work outstanding to fiddle while Rome burns!