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TamilEelamNews.com - Sri Lanka
07 March 2006
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Corruption wide spread in Sri
In a shocking disclosure, Mr. Piyasena Ranasinghe, Director General of the Commission probing bribery or corruption in Sri lanka said 68% of those in the government service appear to be involved in bribery and corruption.
“If the increasing trend of bribery and corruption continued, it might also spark more terrorism in the country,” he further said in a three-day workshop and seminar organized by the UNDP.
Mr. Ranasinghe also said it was so tragic that people today were of the impression that hardly anything could be done in the government sector without offering bribes to public servants. He charged that some school principals and top police officials received bribes through third parties, and the general public hardly complained against such acts.
He further said the people should be educated about the gravity of giving or accepting bribes and warned the country’s economy would be seriously affected if this trend continued.
Sri Lankan police which is long considered as a most corrupt establishment and people totally lost faith on it, according many internal studies about the department. Once again Sri Lanka Police Chief Chandra Fernando pledged that corrupt officers –whatever their rank- would be sacked, if charges against them were proved.
Referring to the Auditor General’s (AG) latest report on the Police department, the Police Chief said that corrupt officers were liable to be blacklisted, taking into account the corruption and fraud cases pending against them. One of the shocking revelations highlighted in the AG’s report was where certain senior officers had swindled thousands of rupees in the police cash reward scheme.
Mr. Fernando acknowledged that the audit reports on individual police stations were so serious that if action was to be taken, then most officers would be sacked. Political analysts in the Island Nation say that since the police department is so politicizes in Sri Lanka, root out the corruption from the department is impossible till the political masters themselves clean their act.
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