{"id":64336,"date":"2012-12-12T08:17:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T08:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=64336"},"modified":"2012-12-14T10:12:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T10:12:41","slug":"cjs-husband-was-our-man-we-quietly-covered-it-up-but-unp-wanted-impeach-cj-mr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/cjs-husband-was-our-man-we-quietly-covered-it-up-but-unp-wanted-impeach-cj-mr\/","title":{"rendered":"CJ&#8217;s Husband Was Our Man, We Quietly Covered It Up, But UNP Wanted Impeach CJ &#8211; MR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/\">Colombo Telegraph<\/a><\/span> &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The NSB share deal became a big crisis in the country. It was newspaper headlines every day. So I summoned the relevant people and got them to return the money and cancel the transaction. We quietly covered it up, that is how it should be done after all, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Pradeep+Kariyawasam&amp;x=5&amp;y=6\">he<\/a><\/span> is our man (ape miniha),&#8221; President <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Mahinda+Rajapaksa&amp;x=15&amp;y=8\">Mahinda Rajapaksa<\/a><\/span> said yesterday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Speaking at the opening of the Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka building in Colombo President Rajapaksa said that it was the UNP that first spoke of an impeachment motion against the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Shirani+Bandaranayake&amp;x=8&amp;y=7\">Chief Justice<\/a><\/span> after the NSB transaction, he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This is the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Pradeep+Kariyawasam&amp;x=5&amp;y=6\">Chairman<\/a><\/span> we appointed. This is the Chief Justice we appointed,&#8221; he said. \u00a0At the same event, the President said that he would appoint <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/i-was-not-in-favour-of-impeachment-im-saddened-by-recent-developments-i-will-appoint-a-committee-mr\/\">an independent committee to review<\/a><\/span> the PSC report on the impeachment of the Chief Justice, in order to &#8216;satisfy his conscience&#8217;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=76EYLV5zisY<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Following is the full speech by the President.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G9mTYIt4c7g<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zcv02JlWS7w<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":60156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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