AKD only quoted social media post - Nalinda responds to Ranil

Claiming that summoning former President Ranil Wickremesinghe before the Bribery Commission was not a secret, Cabinet Spokesman Nalinda Jayatissa said today that President Anura Kumara Dissanayake only quoted Ranil's social media post on his correspondence with the Bribery Commission.

 

While responding to a question on Ranil Wickremesinghe's query as to how President Dissanayake came to know of his correspondence with the Bribery Commission, the Minister told the weekly brefining to announce Cabinet decisions that Wickremesinghe had posted in his social media on April 11 that he could not apprear before the Bribery Commission on April 11 and that he was given a fresh date on April 17.

 

The Minister said President Dissanayake had only quoted Wickremesinghe's social media post and that it was not a secret matter.

 

"Summoning Ranil Wickremesinghe before the Bribery Commission was a known fact by April 11. The President came to know about it through Ranil's social media posts. The Bribery Commission had not informed it to the President," he said.

 

Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe asked yesterday how President Anura Kumara Dissanayake was aware of his correspondence with the Bribery Commission on negotiating a date for him to testify before it.