10th Parliament· 154 sittings on record · 30,475 speeches · latest 10 June 2026

The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri

Samagi Jana Balawegaya· Badulla· 17 December 2024 ·Oral question: Oral Question: White Onion Fraud and Trade Ministry Investigation (Q.52/2024)

Corruption & Governance Reform
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Chaminda Wijesiri congratulated the Speaker on his election and then challenged the basis of information provided by the Minister. He asked whether the Minister’s answers came from one of the “400 files” the Minister had prepared, or from officials of the previous government implicated in the alleged wrongdoing.

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¶ 01 Mr. Speaker, first, I wish to congratulate you on your election to the Chair.

¶ 02 Before asking my first supplementary question, I want to clarify something. Hon. Minister, are the details you have provided based on one of those 400 files you prepared, or, like asking the thief’s mother what happened, are these answers from a file prepared by officials of that same government where the theft occurred? Before I ask my first supplementary question, I want to know whether this is one of your 400 files, or one prepared by the thieves themselves.

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Hansard, Tuesday, 17 December 2024 ·No. 1734685396083959 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 17 December 2024. No. 1734685396083959. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/18057