The Hon. (Dr.) Kavinda Heshan Jayawardhana

¶ 01 Hon. Presiding Member, the people empowered this Government for four to five years to manage the country responsibly. State revenue and reserves are built from taxpayers’ hard-earned money—taxes on milk powder, medicine, transport, and more. Yet due to this Government’s inefficiency and incapacity, reserves and revenue are declining. From March to April, reserves fell by 3.7%, and the rupee depreciated about 2.3% against the dollar.

¶ 02 The Government admits paying Rs. 280 million twice to RDA contractors—people’s tax money. The US Postal Service matter of USD 600,000 was mishandled and had to be repaid. Poland has complained to the EU about violations in the e‑passport tender—unprecedented international complaints against Sri Lanka, risking GSP+ and export earnings.

¶ 03 We see an Rs. 80 billion fertilizer scam: urea available at USD 220–230/MT from Kazakhstan is sought at USD 700–800 via Oman; freight to Sri Lanka is about USD 290—clear fraud. Coal procurements have cost losses near Rs. 100 billion. We reportedly bought oil at USD 280/barrel—the only country to do so. At NDB, about Rs. 13 billion of depositor and other funds appear mishandled. On top of that, the Treasury USD 2.5 million incident—yet the Government seems to shield officials.

¶ 04 Hon. Premnath C. Dolawatte has written to the Hon. Speaker requesting FBI involvement and an international forensic postmortem into the deceased officer’s death; I table that letter for the Library.