{"id":163700,"date":"2016-06-10T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T06:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=163700"},"modified":"2016-06-10T12:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T07:13:28","slug":"ranil-tells-treasury-not-to-release-funds-for-new-luxury-vehicle-importation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/ranil-tells-treasury-not-to-release-funds-for-new-luxury-vehicle-importation\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranil Tells Treasury Not To Release Funds For New Luxury Vehicle Importation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Ranil+Wickremesinghe&amp;x=9&amp;y=6\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/span><\/a> ordered the Treasury today to not release any funds for the importation of new luxury vehicles for several ministers and deputy ministers, and to instead first concentrate on releasing necessary funds for the rebuilding of houses for flood and landslide victims and the Kosgama victims, whose houses were damaged from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Salawa&amp;x=11&amp;y=8\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Salawa<\/span><\/a> Army Camop fire.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61439\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/wikileaks-neither-cbk-nor-kadirgamar-would-be-acceptable-to-the-ltte-ranil-to-us\/ranil-wickremesinghe-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-61439\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61439\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-61439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ranil-Wickremesinghe-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ranil-Wickremesinghe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Ranil-Wickremesinghe-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-61439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Wickremesinghe\u2019s order comes following a public outcry against the Government\u2019s most recent attempts to purchase 32 high end luxury vehicles for the use of several government ministers and deputies, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/government-wants-parliament-approval-for-rs-1-1-billion-to-buy-32-luxury-vehicles-for-top-politicos\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">at a cost of Rs. 1.1 billon<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wickremesinghe has ordered the Treasury to first concentrate on releasing the necessary funding required for the rebuilding programme and hence for the time being the Treasury should not release any funds for the vehicle purchase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":61439,"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-163700","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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