Your View... Dear reader, the Sunday Observer welcomes your letters. Keep them brief, legible include the name, address and contact number of the writer and mail them to: ‘Letters’, The Sunday Observer, 35, D.R. Wijewardene Mawatha, Colombo 10. Email: [email protected] Handwritten copies should be duly signed.

Indolent bureaucrats of the Health Ministry

Are President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the speaker and Ministers meant to aggrieve public servant’s chores?

Are bureaucrats – Secretary and Director General of the Ministry of Health above Parliament and the Executive President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka?

Regarding my complaint of denying promotion from 1.1.1984, I appealed to President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya and the Ministers and they had sent innumerable letters to the Minister of Public Administration and had instructed the Secretary, of the Ministry of Health by letter dated 11.9.2015 to effect my promotion which has been ignored. Failure to carry out instructions of the people’s representatives, forgetting that they are public servants is liable for disciplinary action in terms of the Constitution.

The Secretary and Director General of the Ministry of Health have also dishonoured the agreement reached between them with the Ombudsman on two occasions and even ignored the Public Petitions Committee.

Besides failing to carry out instructions, deliberately violating the Establishment Code Chapter XLVII-being discourteous and Chapter XXVIII in not responding promptly and having a final reply within four weeks.

It is an accepted fact that the public service has deteriorated to rock-bottom and the Augean Stables have to be cleaned. It is better to strictly enforce the Establishment Codes Chapter XLVII, Chapter XXVIII and the International Code of Conduct for Public Officials that was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 12, 1996 (Resolution 51/59).

M. Chandran
Kandy.

Honouring true justice in Sri Lanka

As a law abiding citizen I am overwhelmed of the court’s finding of Thajudeen’s death was a gruesome murder. The Colombo Additional Magistrate, Nishantha Peris beyond doubts ruled that the former rugby player Wasim Thajudeen was brutally killed in May 27, 2012 and ordered to arrest all the suspects involved in the case.

It was noted that this case had gone under the carpet during the previous regime in which several suspects of the close associates of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa were involved. I think the people are very fortunate to get a new Government of good governance under the able and pragmatic leadership of President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to envisage true justice prevailing in the country. It is a matter of fact the Thajudeen’s murder wouldn’t have surfaced unless a new Government was formed in January 8,2015.

I take this opportunity to thank the CID for unraveling the mysterious death of Wassim Thajudeen and in the Same time our honour goes to the Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris for handling the case very meticulously to bring the culprits to the book irrespective of their social, personal and elite dignities.

Z.A.M.Shukoor
Aranayaka