Nalaka Godahewa, the controversial Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairperson, who this week said he was not a political appointee, has resigned from his position, Sri Lankan Finance Minister, Ravi Karunanayake said on Wednesday night.
He told the Business Times that Godahewa had resigned the same day a newspaper article appeared on Tuesday saying he was a non-political appointee.
“There is no reason for the capital market regulator to hand over his resignation after an election. We do not engage in politics,” he was quoted as saying in the Daily Mirror.
But Mr. Karunanayake said, “Many chairmen want to stick on but they were all asked to resign, and they should resign.”
He said ‘people can drop names but that will not work’. Former SEC chairperson Thilak Karunaratne, who quit under pressure allegedly from the stock market mafia, is tipped to be re-appointed.
The SEC, which earlier came under the Finance Ministry, is now under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s purview. – Ends -
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
In his special statement, President Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that debt restructuring agreements will postpone all bilateral loan payments to foreign countries until 2028. Additionally, Sri Lanka will have until 2043 to repay these loans on concessional terms.
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