Civil society anger mounts over President’s remarks

Civil society organisations including the mainstream National Movement for a Just Society and the Purawasi Balaya (Citizen's Power), have called a media briefing tomorrow in Colombo to protest the President’s recent condemnation of the Bribery Commission and the Police Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID).
Separately the three commissioners of the Bribery Commission and its Director-General are contemplating stepping down after President Maithripala Sirisena two days ago accused the institution and the FCID of working to a political agenda.
Informed sources said civil society activists, many who were behind the January 2016 movement to oust the Rajapaksa regime, were disappointed with the President’s remarks and are likely to make a call tomorrow for a withdrawal of the remarks condemning the institutions in question, a demandl which the President is unlikely to heed other the likelihood of acknowledging that his comments had been misinterpreted or miscrued.  - ENDS -

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