Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been issued summons to appear before a Presidential Commission on September 12 to give evidence on a complaint regarding the Agriculture Ministry's building.
A spokesman for the Presidential Commission said that summons had been sent through fax to the Prime Minister's Office and that it would be handed over tomorrow (Sept 10).
The Agriculture Ministry had vacated its building in Battaramulla in 2015 after the Prime Minister had put forward a cabinet proposal to use the building for the activities of 17 Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committees.
Accordingly, the Ministry had then purchased a building owned by D.P.A Jayasinghe Company by paying a massive monthly rent of Rs 21.5 million.
A complaint against the exorbitant rent had been filed at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) which is probing state sector corruption under the current government.
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.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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