The Hon. Major General (Rtd.) Aruna Jayasekera - Deputy Minister of Defence
The Deputy Minister of Defence challenged allegations that military and police personnel are involved in drug trafficking, asking Hon. Gajendra Ponnambalam to provide specific names, locations, units, regiments, and police stations. He stated that any such information would be investigated and denied that the defence establishment has links to trafficking.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Thank you very much for the opportunity, Hon. Deputy Speaker.
¶ 02 First, I wish to ask Hon. Gajendra Ponnambalam this: he said members of the military and police are involved in drug trafficking. If so, please provide us names, locations, units, regiments, and police stations. Do not make such statements openly without specifics. Inform us and we will investigate. We do not have links to such trafficking.
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- Hansard, Wednesday, 12 November 2025 ·No. 23378 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Major General (Rtd.) Aruna Jayasekera - Deputy Minister of Defence. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 12 November 2025. No. 23378. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/17335