With the prorogation of parliament, all parliamentary committees, including the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) headed by @charith9 which did much work inquiring into serious malpractices in Govt institutions highlighted by the National Audit Office, stand dissolved. (1)
This includes further inquiry into the report based on which @TimesOnlineLK published the story yesterday on #LOLC/Hingurana sugar. All incomplete COPE reports that haven't been submitted to parliament will now be in limbo. (2)
If you are a citizen of #SriLanka, understand one thing: all the checks and balances that were put in place to protect our rights and our resources are being dismantled to serve political objectives and personal ambitions. Utimately, YES, it hits the economy, our stomachs (3)
Nothing works in isolation. The corruption that takes place in our institutions means projects could be going through at high cost to benefit middlemen. Who pays? We do. We also may for the violation of established rules and procedures, the politicisation, the cronyism. (4)
Pay*
When parliamentary oversight committees do good work, they must be allowed to. Because they are OUR mechanisms. We are entitled to them. It is not our concern that exposing malpractice will have a negative impact on this or that administration.(5)
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