It is reported that the Pohottu group of MPs is working to submit a cabinet paper for the payment of 12 crore rupees as compensation to 27 government officials claiming that they were subjected to political revenge during the previous government.
They are preparing to present this cabinet paper in the name of former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, who resigned on May 09, to the cabinet by current Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena.
Sources also say that a group of the highest ranks of Pohottuwa is exerting this influence on the Prime Minister.
It is also said that one officer will get an amount ranging from 7 lakh to 250 lakh rupees.
Compensation for eleven other public officials has been denied in this round because the cases against them have not been completed or because the court has instructed to reassign some of the cases.
Former President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga and former President’s Secretary Gamini Senarath are among the officials who are planning to get compensation for being subjected to political revenge during the good governance regime of the current President Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister.
Former President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga (Rs. 150 Lakhs), Former President’s Secretary Gamini Senarath (Rs. 240 Lakhs), Former Sri Lanka Insurance Managing Director Piyadasa Kudabalage (Rs. 24 Lakhs.),
Former Director General of Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Anusha Palpita (Rs. 140 Lakhs) ), Magistrate Thilina Gamage (Rs. 60 lakhs), former Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Neil Bandara Hapuhinna (Rs. 59 lakhs), former Director General of Divi Naguma Development Department Kitsiri Ranawaka (Rs. 48 lakhs) and former Navy Commander Wasantha Karanagoda (Rs. 42 lakhs) It is reported that they are planning to pay this compensation.
