The Hon. Chaminda Wijesiri

¶ 01 Hon. Speaker, this Adjournment Motion is brought to project a narrative, but the people outside do not feel these claimed gains in their stomachs or pockets. If revenue has increased, when will it be spent to relieve the burden on ordinary people—your voters, the farmer, the worker?

¶ 02 You call on us to “come and help,” but we fear a return to old habits. On the India agreement, there is still no clarity, while conditions seem to hand over critical economic levers, contrary to past positions.

¶ 03 Yesterday, I asked the Prime Minister about the massive frauds of the past—bond scam, sugar tax, onion scams—about which there was much talk when in Opposition. The reply contained no names or specifics; only proposals for forensic audits. Why this lack of candour?

¶ 04 On 08.08, Hon. Chanaka asked about the former President’s youngest son’s rocket project. The PM said no funds were invested and there was no loss to the state. Is this how issues are neutralized, to facilitate a transfer of impunity? Encounters at the airport, introductions, and “managing” narratives to cleanse past offenders—this appears to be the strategy. The public asked for accountability: not just to expose corruption, but to recover stolen assets. Where are the names related to the bond scam, sugar duty fraud, onion fraud? Why is there no action?

¶ 05 I place on record the PM’s written answers in the Library.

¶ 06 The people will not accept whitewashing of the past under any pretext.