Sri Lankan opposition ‘misleading people on 2OA’

COLOMBO: All that the creation of the Audit Service Commission achieved was to set up yet another Commission to do the work that was being done by the Public Service Commission, the government says countering what it calls as false allegations from those who oppose the 20th constitutional amendment bill.

“The content of Article 154(2) which existed from the inception of the 1978 Constitution, was not changed by the 19th Amendment. The content of Article 154(2) will not change under the 20th Amendment either. Therefore it can be said that the content of Article 154(2) has remained the same from the inception of the 1978 Constitution and will continue to remain so in the future as well. Hence, the claim that state owned companies are to be taken out of the purview of the Auditor General, is a complete falsehood,” said a statement from Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa published in the government official news portal.

“The opposition has been unhesitatingly uttering every lie that comes to mind with regard to this matter because of the confidence that most people would not be familiar with these obscure provisions of the Constitution.

“It is our duty to understand the facts of the matter and to defeat the unprincipled attempts being made by the opposition to mislead the people,” the statement added.