If below is true Ms Michele Sison must make a statement admitting it or denying same also the Minister must make the recording public with evidence. This is a matter of very serious nature effectively proving meddling in internal affairs of a Sovereign Country!
- · Resettlement Minister Guneratne Weerakoon claims US Envoy offered him green card and a house in America
- · Says Envoy wanted military camps removed in the north
A Government
Minister has claimed that he was offered a ‘bribe’ by outgoing US Ambassador
Michele Sison.
Resettlement
Minister Guneratne Weerakoon told a political meeting in Aranwela on Thursday
that he had recordings of the discussion, to which the Secretary to his
Ministry was also privy.
“She came to
meet me and said I was a skilled Minister. She said I had done a good job with
resettlement,” the Minister said.
Minister
Weerakoon said the Envoy had asked him to remove military camps in the north.
“I answered
that it is not my job to do that. President Rajapaksa is the
Commander-in-Chief. He will not allow the LTTE to raise its head again,” the
Minister revealed.
Referring to
the US Envoy as “Michele Nona,” Minister Weerakoon alleged that she was
involved in pumping money to topple President Rajapaksa’s Government.
“She told me
she would give me and my family a green card and ‘we will give you a house in
the US, your children will get scholarships’. I replied that I was a man from
the south and I didn’t want what she was offering,” he added.
The Minister
said that his experience had shown that this was how foreign ambassadors were
buying Government ministers.
There was no
immediate reaction from the US Embassy to the Minister’s remarks and
allegations.
US
Ambassador Sison leaves Colombo this weekend for her new posting in New York.
She will be
posted as Deputy Ambassador to the UN in New York, where President Barack
Obama’s former National Security Advisor Samantha Power serves as Ambassador.
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