{"id":159020,"date":"2016-03-11T02:22:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=159020"},"modified":"2016-03-11T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T20:52:41","slug":"missing-gold-no-confidence-motion-must-be-brought-against-a-mp-says-ranil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/missing-gold-no-confidence-motion-must-be-brought-against-a-mp-says-ranil\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Gold: No Confidence Motion Must Be Brought Against A MP, Says Ranil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe&amp;x=7&amp;y=9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/span><\/a> declared that a no-confidence motion must be brought against a \u2018normal Parliamentarian\u2019 over the many kilos of missing gold that was recovered by the Army during the final stages of the war in the North.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sarath-de-alwisfeb-14-2016\/ranil-w-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-157548\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-157548\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ranil-W1-300x276.jpg\" alt=\"Ranil W\" width=\"300\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ranil-W1-300x276.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Ranil-W1.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cSome are trying to bring a no confidence motion because we are revealing the truth. But the no confidence motion must be brought against a normal Parliamentarian who is sitting in parliament these days and not against any minister,\u201d Wickremesinghe said hinting at former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Army informed that they recovered 180 kilograms of gold, but the entire amount is not there. When I met Filed Marshal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sarath+Fonseka&amp;x=13&amp;y=9\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sarath Fonseka<\/span><\/a>, he told that they had accepted 220 kilograms of gold. So, now what do we do about this? Who will take responsibility for the missing gold?,\u201d he questioned while addressing an event at BMICH which unveiled a five year plan to uplift the living standards of people in the plantation sector.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe also claimed that during the past decade the people\u2019s right has been robbed. \u201cActually, we don\u2019t even know how much they have robbed,\u201d the Prime Minister said. He added that the previous government spent US$ 221 million dollars to purchase eight aircrafts. \u201cInstead they should have used that money to build houses for the Tamils, Sinhalese and Muslims in the North, South and East,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the cost for the 5 year programme to uplift the living standards of the people in the plantation sector was Rs. 10 million. \u201cBut, they spent 21 times more of this money to buy aircrafts,\u201d he charged, while adding that the previous Rajapaksa led administration could have built palaces instead of houses with the money spent on the aircrafts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven though they didn\u2019t build houses in Jaffna, they build palaces. I went to Panama; there they have built three palaces, with swimming pools, bars, gyms and saunas. I don\u2019t even know why they needed saunas in the East,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had a master plan to rob, and due to their stealing, we have to pay for this. We have a massive debt to pay off. But we won\u2019t stop developing the country,\u201d Wickremesinghe assured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":157548,"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-159020","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 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Missing Gold: No Confidence Motion Must Be Brought Against A MP, Says Ranil - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/missing-gold-no-confidence-motion-must-be-brought-against-a-mp-says-ranil\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Missing Gold: No Confidence Motion Must Be Brought Against A MP, Says Ranil - 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