Chief Opposition Whip asks Speaker for rest of Easter carnage report

Chief Opposition Whip and Kandy District SJB MP Lakshman Kiriella has written to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena asking the latter to provide the MPs with copies of the complete report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on Easter Sunday carnage.

Kiriella in his letter says that the Opposition has continuously demanded the PCoI report on Easter Sunday terror attacks and as a result only the first volume of the report was made available to the MPs. The MPs are asking for the report to study its content for the parliamentary debate on the issue. The MPs cannot participate in a debate successfully by reading only the first volume of a report, which contains five. The volumes (two to five) contain the evidential documents and accounts of testimonies given to the PCoI. “Therefore, I request you to take action to provide the MPs with missing volumes i.e. from second to fifth volumes of the PCoI report in advance of the debate so that the MPs have time to peruse them,” Chief Opposition Kiriella said in his letter to the Speaker.