{"id":161038,"date":"2016-04-20T16:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=161038"},"modified":"2016-04-20T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T11:12:46","slug":"sirisena-appoints-pujith-jayasundara-as-new-igp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sirisena-appoints-pujith-jayasundara-as-new-igp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirisena Appoints Pujith Jayasundara As New IGP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite protests, President Maithripala Sirisena today appointed Pujith Jayasundara as the country\u2019s 34th Inspector General of Police (IGP).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_152914\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/acting-igp-pujith-to-appear-before-police-commission-over-attack-on-students\/pujith\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-152914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-152914\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-152914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pujith-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"DIG Pujith Jayasundara\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pujith-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Pujith-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-152914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DIG Pujith Jayasundara<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jayasundara received his letter of appointment from Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment comes amidst protests by certain groups, who pointed out that the Constitutional Council should not have allowed one of it\u2019s members, Minister Champika Ranawaka to sit at the meeting to decide on the IGP, due to a conflict of interest as Ranawaka is currently under investigation for a hit and run accident.<\/p>\n<p>Ranawaka was Sirisena\u2019s nominee to the Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":152914,"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-161038","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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