{"id":139123,"date":"2015-02-12T12:59:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=139123"},"modified":"2015-02-17T02:59:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:29:34","slug":"i-dont-even-have-a-house-to-live-gota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-dont-even-have-a-house-to-live-gota\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don\u2019t Even Have A House To Live: Gota"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Gotabaya+Rajapaksa&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Gotabaya Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> has said the allegations leveled against him on plundering state wealth \u2013 particularly the wealth accumulated after the defeat of the LTTE \u2013 are baseless and claims he is not even financially well-off to buy a house for himself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gotabaya-Picture-courtesy-businesstoday.lk_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-133935\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gotabaya-Picture-courtesy-businesstoday.lk_.jpg\" alt=\"Gotabaya Picture courtesy businesstoday.lk\" width=\"221\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gotabaya-Picture-courtesy-businesstoday.lk_.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Gotabaya-Picture-courtesy-businesstoday.lk_-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe truth is I don\u2019t even have a house to live in still. I am trying to buy a house because the house that I currently live in is owned by my mother-in-law and she was living here for 40 years. I currently use this house because she is living in the US,\u201d he has said in an interview with the Daily Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>He has said the decision to not prosecute LTTE Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Kumaran+Pathmanathan&amp;x=7&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">KP<\/span><\/a> was mutually agreed on by the former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=8&amp;y=4\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/span><\/a> and the three security commanders because they believed it would pave way for him to cooperate with their investigations into the LTTE network.<\/p>\n<p>However, as for KP\u2019s wealth and his fleet of ships that Gotabaya is accused of taking control, he has said that he has no idea about it because all details are with the military intelligence, some of which even he hasn\u2019t had access to.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, he has stated that he believes the failure to punish members of the government promptly for their wrongdoings is one of the reasons that contributed towards the public losing faith in his brother\u2019s regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":133935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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