The Committee on Public Enterprises (CoPE) has decided to obtain an oath from officials summoned to the Committee. The decision was made during the special CoPE meeting held today (21).
Accordingly, from thereon all officials entering CoPE will be subject to an oath on their testimonies at the Committee.
Chairman of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) M.M.C Ferdinando who attended the CoPE on June 10 subsequently withdrew a statement he had made regarding the President, leading to controversy.
It is in this backdrop has the CoPE made the above decision.
The CEB Chairman has been summoned to appear before the Committee on June 23, based on the letter he had submitted to the Committee on June 11. CoPE Chief Charitha Herath noted that a decision regarding the withdrawal of Ferdinando’s comments about the President from the Committee report will be made thereafter.
MIAP
