{"id":186787,"date":"2018-01-27T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T03:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=186787"},"modified":"2018-01-27T19:55:27","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T14:25:27","slug":"cabinet-sleeps-on-national-audit-bill-despite-more-than-100-requests-for-action-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cabinet-sleeps-on-national-audit-bill-despite-more-than-100-requests-for-action-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet Sleeps On National Audit Bill Despite More Than 100 Requests For Action: President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Maithripala Sirisena said at a media briefing at the President\u2019s House on Wednesday that Cabinet had not moved on enacting the National Audit Bill despite the fact that he had taken up the issue with the Cabinet on more than 100 occasions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_186345\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186345\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-186345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Maithripala-Sirisena-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-186345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sirisena<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Enacting the National Audit Bill was included in the ambitious \u2018100 Days Programme\u2019 which was a central element of his election manifesto.<\/p>\n<p>The President revealed this to Shamindra Ferdinando of \u2018<em>The Island<\/em>\u2019 newspaper when pointed out the importance of enacting vital legislation such as this against the backdrop of the President\u2019s shocking claim that Rs 1 Trillion in foreign loans and grants received between 2004 and 2014 couldn\u2019t be unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p>The President also claimed that there was a group working in unison to block judicial investigations on the basis of PRECIFAC (Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate and inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges) revelations and the report submitted by the Presidential Committee of Inquiry into the Central Bank bond issue scandal.<\/p>\n<p>This \u2018group\u2019 according to Sirisena was made up of corrupt parliamentarians representing the major political parties, i.e. the United National Party (led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party which he, the President, leads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":165002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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