It is reported that Dayasiri Jayasekara, Secretary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party(SLFP), Member of Parliament, is also at the forefront of the people’s representatives who defrauded the Electricity Board.
From 2016 until now, the electricity bill of the house where Dayasiri Jayasekara resides, has not been settled and its amount to be paid is Rs. 637,448.38 .This is stated in a letter sent to the MP by Hemantha Ranasinghe, Deputy General Manager of Ceylon Electricity Board in Colombo and also he informs to settle this amount before October 15.
The Electricity Board also informs that if the payment is not made before the relevant date, the electricity will be cut off without any prior notice.
The person who resided before handing over this house to Mr. Dayasiri Jayasekara has also not paid the bills to the Electricity Board and the unpaid amount is 494,739.69 rupees.
Accordingly, the unsettled amount of only one house provided for public representatives has exceeded one million rupees. In recent days it was reported that more than 50 former and current representatives have not paid the bills for the electricity they used.
If the common people who use 40-50 units of electricity per month do not pay their bills for two or three months, the electricity board is anxious to cut off the supply simultaneously, though millions of public representatives default on paying the bills, It’s doubtful about the reason for providing them the electricity for six or seven years without cutting off the supply.
