SLBFE management reprimanded by Auditor
Mired with allegations for the past few years, the country’s foreign employment facilitation agency, the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) is faced with a fresh allegation.
This latest charge has to do with the face-off that D.D.P. Senanayake, General Manager (GM) SLBFE had with an internal auditor R.A.D.N. Gunasekara less than two months ago. The Business Times has obtained a letter issued by Deputy Auditor General (Administration), M.S. Nayanakumara in which he reprimanded Mr. Senanayake requesting the Chairman to allow the auditor to perform her duties.
The letter was issued days before the presidential election on September 18, in response to a letter sent to him on September 4 by the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Foreign Employment.
It says that the Auditor General’s Department had steered a fact-finding mission on the allegations made by Mr. Senanayake and has found that Ms. Gunasekera has done her work per the Audit Act. The Deputy Auditor General further says that the fact-finding mission has revealed that the GM has done many things to obstruct Ms. Gunasekara from performing her duties. Finally, the letter requests Mr. Senanayake to allow Ms. Gunasekara to carry out her responsibilities without interference and obstacles.
Upon further investigations, The Sunday Times Business found out that Ms. Gunasekara was transferred to the Labour section of the Embassy in Israel about a month ago.
Chairman SLBFE Koshala Wickremesinghe told The Sunday Times Business that he is aware of most of these complaints. He said that the agency now houses a separate room with computers and a supervisor where complainants can use the computer and e-mail or WhatsApp complaints and on Monday opened a one-stop window to manage complaints at its office in Battaramulla.
“They can also put complaints in a separate box, and we are already getting many complaints with regards to the SLBFE,” he added. He also noted that many complaints pertaining to domestic worker training and charges involved in this training have been reported.
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