Yahapalana govt. made use of CID and police to frame their political opponents – MP Jayasekara

By Saman Indrajith

Murder convict, Ratnapura district SLPP MP Premalal Jayasekara told Parliament on Thursday that the way the yahapalana government made use of the CID and police to frame their political opponents was now unfolding in the media.

Participating in an adjournment debate on the Finance Commission, the MP said: “I think there would be some more terrifying stories on how the yahapalana political leaders got certain officials such as Shani Abeysekera to tamper with evidence while also fabricating evidence to achieve their political objectives by bending the law according to their whims and fancies.

When these stories come out, people who voted for the SLPP to send the yahapalana government home, will be proud of their choice. They understand that they did a yeoman service to the entire nation by voting to change that regime. People can be happy that they voted for the SLPP to end such a tyrannical government.”

The MP said that Shani Abeysekera and several others now under investigation for ‘making’ and ‘breaking’ cases by forcing witnesses to give evidence had played a role in investigations against him. “There will dawn a day when the truth will come out,” the MP said.

He further said that not all the police officers were corrupt and politically motivated such as Shani and others under investigation. “There are many gentlemen in uniform. Amongst them there are highly corrupt officers such as Shani,” he said.

“Similarly there are many untold stories about prison officers. We saw in the media recently some reports of corrupt officers. Just like in the case of the police, not all prison officers are corrupt. There are some bad eggs. One of the reasons might be the poor salary and facilities they get. Since I am now in prison, I see these things”, the MP noted.

He added: “I happened to read a letter from a jailor describing how hard their lives are. I table that letter. It shows the hard life they live while they are on duty. We know that the salaries of police officers were increased by 40 percent recently. But prison officers did not get a raise. I propose that their salaries be increased because that would at least ease their burden,” MP Jayasekera said.