by Mahesh Senanayake
Speaking to The Sunday Leader she stated that she has never misused or abused the powers bestowed upon her and instead had carried out her duties with utmost diligence and responsibility despite numerous drawbacks and obstacles.
“Mr. Kodituwakku alleges that I have suppressed and/or ignored the credible and plausible complaints made to me on 26th August 2016, against the Members of Parliament both in the government and the opposition for illegally selling the vehicle permits granted to them. Firstly, I am only the Director General of the Bribery Commission.
My duty is only to submit complaints to the investigation unit as and when I am directed by the Commission to investigate. I do not conduct investigations either. Investigators do the investigations. There is a process”, she said and added that there are over 10,000 complaints that are currently pending at the Commission.
“If Mr. Nagananda Kodituwakku believes that the Commission could conclude his complaint within a jiffy, it would only be in his fantasy.
So it is not even worth my time, energy and resources to make a complaint against him under section 21 for lodging a false complaint against me. I do not have time to waste on these frivolous complaints” said Ms. Wickramasinghe. She also pointed out that in recent times some of the articles published in the media, particularly on websites and social media, are false and fabricated. Wickramasinghe said, “I have checked this complaint.
It’s dealt in the normal course. The file on the complaint is not even closed, so I don’t understand the reason of Mr. Nagananda’s hipper”.
Public interest activist Nagananda Kodituwakku has made the complaint to the Bribery Commission (CIABOC) alleging that the government loses a colossal sum of revenue in billions due to the misuse of vehicle permits granted to the members of parliament.