A memorandum expressing disagreement over the possible transfer of Northern Province Governor Reginald Cooray has been handed over to the Presidential Secretariat yesterday (Dec 1), Kilinochchi District Secretary S. Arumainayaham told Times Online.
Trainee teachers and health officials in the North had handed over the memorandum to Mr. Arumainayaham yesterday.
The memorandum urged the President to refrain from transferring Mr. Cooray to another province saying he was a Governor who understood the problems of the people in the North.
Mr. Arumainayaham had accepted the memorandum when he had arrived at the Kilinochchi railway station to receive a stock of flood relief items that had arrived from the Southern Province.
President Maithripala Sirisena had instructed all Provincial Council governors to resign from office on December 31.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
Deputy Minister of Finance and Economic Stabilization and NPP National List MP Harshana Suriyapperuma who is tipped to be named the next Finance Ministry Secretary resigned from Parliament today.
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