In the event that Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Vision for Prosperity has failed and the people of the country have 200 per cent lost their confidence with the government, Mahinda Rajapaksa should be taking over the country to rebuild it, urged Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero, speaking to a briefing held in Abhayarama Temple, Narahenpita today (20).

Although Gotabaya Rajapaksa continues to serve as the Head of State of Sri Lanka, a person of experience should be taking over the country, the Thera noted, suggesting that he should be none other than Mahinda Rajapaksa.

He pointed out that that agriculture has completely collapsed in the country due to the short-sighted decisions taken by the government on fertiliser.

The 6.9 million mandate was given to the government on the confidence the people had with Mahinda Rajapaksa, he went on, adding that the youth community in Sri Lanka who painted the walls with a blossoming hope for their future are now suffering from disappointment.

The Thera further suggested that it is not too late to change the situation, adding that bestowing the power with Mahinda Rajapaksa may not be objected by Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Should Gotabaya object the idea, he would be committing a damage to the country, he claimed. 

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Minister of State Roshan Ranasinghe has suggested that farmers try to do cultivations for two seasons using organic fertilizer and if there is any failure, he will take to the streets with the farmers.

“Organic fertilizers can be added to our lands because we have phosphorus in our country. A ship of potassium was imported. Then nitrogen is brought in as a liquid. We say let’s try two seasons. If there is any failure, I will take to the streets with the farmers. ”

Minister of State Roshan Ranasinghe stated this while expressing his views to the media yesterday (20).

A triad formed upon the four-wing division at the Ministry of Health has developed a mafia which is controlling the country’s health sector, divulged Dr. Rukshan Bellana, Chairman of Government Medical officers’ Forum (GMOF), speaking to a briefing held in Colombo today (20).

The triad is controlling the Director General of Health Services and the Deputy Director Generals of Health Services, he added, accusing Dr. Prasanna Gunasena the Chairman of the State Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC) of being a fraud. Dr. Bellana claimed that Gunasena’s name will be disclosed in the PANAMA papers which will be published in about five years.

Dr. Bellana went on saying that a recent newspaper claimed that Gunasena is due to tender his resignation to the post of SPC Chairman, suggesting that he is not even qualified to hold the position this far.

“These posts were given in their submission to certain politicians, parties, or Viyath Maga. None of these persons are qualified to hold such posts. They are not qualified to work in the public service. Those who had served in the Private Sector have now come to the chairmanships of state corporations, formed mafia gangs and are controlling the Director General of Health Services and the Deputy Director Generals of Health Services. How can the health sector be moved forward like this? This is a divisive regime, a dichotomy. The Health Service cannot be moved forward like this. There is no relief for the people from the medicines. There is a shortage of drugs. Despite being informed that the cancer drugs imported from India are inferior, they are imported. What is this? Is the country being subjugated to the Mafia? To take control?

There is a Chairman called Prasanna Gunasena. He has become a bully to everyone now. His superiority is based on the fact that he submitted himself to the President at Viyath Maga. Using his title, he is giving orders to the ministerial heads. We have seen chairmen for the last 25 years, but not a scumbag like this. At one point he is reaching out for Lanka Hospital for his private practice, and at another, playing the role of the SPC Chairman. Is it possible for such a person to work in a corporation? Files are piled up at the Corporation without any decision being made,” he said.

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Dr. Wasantha Sena Welianga was arrested by the Thanamalwila Police yesterday (20) for conducting a cannabis cultivation in the Bodagama area in Thanamalwila for research.

It is said that he has been arrested on the charge of cultivating cannabis without a license.

Dr. Wasantha Sena Welianga has researched and written two books on cannabis and has been urging governments for many years to legalize cannabis cultivation in the country.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Kumara Welgama says that there is no other failed minister in the history of Sri Lanka who is as disgusted by the people as Mahindananda Aluthgamage.

“I think in my life I have never seen failed minister like Mahindananda in the history of Sri Lanka. He says chemical fertilizers are not imported, only organic fertilizers. But chemical fertilizers are arriving in the country now.

Today we cannot go without chemical fertilizers. This was a mistake, they could have reduced using chemical fertilizers by 25%. They tried to show the world that they were the first in the world to change 100% of organic fertilizer. If I were him, I would have been resigned from the ministry and gone home. “

Kumara Welgama stated this addressing a media briefing held yesterday (20).

The government has not taken any decision to suspend the import of organic fertilizer from China and has only suspended the purchase of fertilizer from the Chinese company that sent the samples containing harmful bacteria, said the Media Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage.

Following is the statement issued by him to the media.

The decision to release fully vaccinated domestic and foreign passengers arriving in Sri Lanka from October 01 without being referred to PCR interventions is rather foolish and putting the entire country in danger, Health Trade Unions alleged.

In the event that no vaccination fully protects anyone from the pandemic, specialists being influneced to treat people as “non-infectees” on the basis of a mere PCR test carried out in a foreign country two or three days before their arrival has now become a puzzle, following the government’s announcement on letting returnees who are fully vaccinated escape any PCR intervention in Sri Lanka.

Commenting on the event, Ravi Kumudesh, Convener of the Health Trade Union Coordinating Centre, said: “According to these guidelines, domestic and foreign passengers arriving in Sri Lanka are entered to the country without being referred to a PCR test. We have to ask the Director General of Health Services whether someone had put a knife on your throat to make this decision. Or is there a medical expert who had advised you to make that decision? Because no country in the world has taken such an informal decision so far. Apparently, only two countries in the world are currently implementing the decision not to conduct PCR tests on people entering the country. Those two countries have controlled Covid-19 100 per cent and have developed the ability to conduct PCR throughout their whole lands.

The act of protecting the gates is one of the world’s leading policies of Covid control. Now, we are still at a lockdown, which means we are at a huge risk. Stopping the conduction of PCR tests on people entering the country amid such a lockdown is never a healthy decision at all, but a decision made under the influence of an informal business figure or two, with fear.

We are we conducting PCR tests twice? No matter where in the world a PCR test is carried out, the sensitivity of such a test is only 70 per cent. After performing such a 70 per cent sensitive test and flying to another country for two-or-three days, one has to reverify the accuracy of their status. The results of these test may require seven days. The results may not be accurate for the next few days. This is why almost every country in the world has made it mandatory to carry out the intervention when leaving and entering their own country. But ours suddenly takes a decision to stop these interventions.

Also, by doing this to those who have completed the vaccination, an attempt is being made to show the country that there is protection which the vaccine does not provide. A form of protection that was not promised by the company which manufactured the vaccine, nor the country, is expected from it. None of the vaccines have been shown to be eliminating the contagion upon vaccination to date. A vaccine only reduces mortality and the risk of being mortal. Therefore, anyone who is vaccinated can develop the disease, so can transmit the disease to another. So, the expectation that no PCR test is required upon complete vaccination is similar to the notion that the contagion is eliminated upon vaccination. So, if no country who developed these vaccine is confident of such a prominent result, with what expectation should our country develop one?”

Following the Sinhala and Tamil New Year festival, more than 12,000 lives were lost within five and a half months due to the third wave of Covid-19. The damage to the economy caused by the lockdown is measured by billions of rupees. As we speak, the country is still spending quarantine curfew. Despite the decision to lift curfew from October 01, interprovincial travel restrictions will be in force for another two weeks. To date, the daily death toll remains at a figure of over 50, and as a country we may have to face the economic and social impact of this pandemic for a long time ahead.

Should any authority make any unscientific decision affecting the entire country, it would be a heinous crime endangering the lives of many people.

Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports claim that there is a state minister behind the decision to stop the PCR interventions and that a commission affair has caused the event to trigger.

We are looking forward to updating on the matter soon.