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Govt. unable to account for US $470 million funds received for Tsunami relief -
Lakshman Kiriella
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Colombo News Desk CND on 01 January, 2010 01:28:00
 
In the latest report of the Tsunami International Agency this stark discovery 
has been pinpointed .  Since 2005 , the Auditor General  had not done an audit
on the Tsunami fund management . The Govt. too had not answered the queries
raised by the UNP in and out of Parliament on the Tsunami fraud since 2005 
despite the fact that the President and the Govt. are responsible to the
Parliament in regard to all official financial dealings. The President and his
company of cronies must hold themselves responsible for this misappropriation ,
for it is they who were controlling the funds received with President as the
Finance Minister  and the cronies  as his financial controllers of national
funds.
Because of this misappropriation , it was only  the poor Tsunami victims who
suffered . The foreign aiding countries stopped sending further aid amounting to
Rs. 210, 000 million promised earlier ,after they discovered that the Tsunami
funds had been abused , and not been properly deployed   for honest Tsunami
relief work .
When the media questioned as to whether a new UNP Govt. will hold an inquiry
into this and take action against the culprits , Mr. Kiriella said , the UNP
will definitely do that . It has been no  use complaining to the President
because it is like asking him to apprehend his own culprits  whom he is seeking
hard to protect, he added.