“YES SIR”  DEALS OF YAHAPALANAYA

The now famous “Yes Sir” telephone call of the IGP has more to it than meets the eye and says a lot about hitherto suspected deals of the Yahapalana government involving the crooks of the former regime.

The ordinary voter has not forgotten the grandiose promises of Yahapalana team during the elections that they will take stern action against the wrong-doers of the previous government regardless of their status and that all those culprits will be locked-up for ever.  But, unfortunately for the common man, the converse is true in that the hunters have entered into dirty deals with the hunted and both are living happily ever after – most probably laughing at the poor voting public who went out tooth and nail to see that justice is done.

First we had the sorry episode of a Yahapalana minister having to resign from the cabinet for his defence of  the Avant Garde arms and ammunition ship which was a pet project of the ex-Defence Minister and some retired navy officers and which actually denied valuable foreign exchange to the country.

Then, we had an explosion of a time bomb with the Central Bank Bonds issue in which none other than the Governor of the Central Bank himself was involved along with his son in law : a perfect case of corruption and nepotism, the very same themes which the Yahapalana politicians mouthed at every turn to eliminate totally from this country.

So much was made of the Independent Commissions including the Police Commission that there will be no interference by politicians on the independent functioning of government bodies including the Police, but we now have this classic case of the IGP bending over backwards to do the bidding of a “Sir” who called him on his mobile phone during a function and which went public with the telecasting of a snippet of the incident.  Although the Chief government whip, Minister Kiriella, tried to make fun of this incident, the whole country now knows that this “Sir” is none other than the Minister in charge of Police himself. Now, one can see the Yahapalana advocates going helter skelter in a vain attempt at damage control but for all purposes and intents, the Yahapalana politicians stand exposed very badly. 

This obviously gives rise to the rumours circulating in the country that no action at all had been taken against the once very powerful VVIP family of Rajapakses for any of their purported misdeeds with the result that the Joint Opposition have started to taunt the Yahapalana advocates with the challenge “Catch me if you can”.  The Yahapalana politicians who have messed up the situation so much with the Bond scam  are behaving like cats who have defecated on a stone!

“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country “. Karl Kraus