The Hon. Rohana Bandara
Rohana Bandara alleged that losses from a coal procurement fraud should be recovered from those responsible and linked this to concerns over the restructuring of the Ceylon Electricity Board. He questioned the Government about reported suspicious employee deaths, delayed voluntary retirement payments to workers who relied on union assurances, and asked whether and when those payments would be made, including whether bank support would be required.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Then it must be recovered from “Pelawatte” or similar—through those responsible for the coal fraud. My second supplementary: You restructured the CEB while being a group that stood for trade unions. A Mayor from your party said over the phone, “We will protect this even if a hundred thousand die.” Now we see suspicious employee deaths being reported as suicides. Many took voluntary retirement trusting union assurances, yet have not received payments. Will you pay them? When? Will you also need bank support for that?
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- Hansard, Tuesday, 5 May 2026 ·No. 23546 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
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Cite as: The Hon. Rohana Bandara. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 5 May 2026. No. 23546. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/19719