Police media spokesman was ousted from his post is receiving death threats from Defense Ministry

Country under Rajapkses on the road to perdition

(Lanka-e-News -28.Feb.2013, 5.30PM) The former police media spokesman , SSP Prishantha Jayakody who was ousted from his post is receiving death threats , according to reports reaching Lanka e news. Jayakody was dismissed from his post directly and immediately on orders from Gotabaya , the defense secretary for allegedly releasing a press release that is unsavory to the Rajapakse regime. The communiqué dated 13th February is : the exposure of the obstrictions and impediments the Uva province DIG M K Latheef faced in the performance of his duites due to the political henchmen and stooges of the MaRa regime of the province When a three wheeler containing ganja (cannabis) was being transported by the brother of Moneragala district Mayor it was halted . Consequent upon this police action , the murderous brother had brutally assaulted two police officers until they bled. The MaRa regime had then issued orders not to enforce the law on these assailants . DIG Latheef had ignoring the illegal orders had taken steps legally and got the Mayor’s brother produced before the court and remanded. Following this , when the regime’s political vengeance began to reach dangerous proportions , the police media spokesman on the instructions of the IGP had released the controversial media communiqué on the 13th. The content in the communiqué hereunder had provoked the Rajapakses. Those held as suspects in this criminal assault were individuals who were associated closely in politics in the Moneragala district . Immense pressures were applied to get them released according to reports . No matter what , the police officers have duly executed their duties without kowtowing to any pressures. The attempts to get the suspects freed without the law enforcement duly through the Moneragala DIG had failed. It is to be noted that it is the duty of the police officers to perform their duties duly and enforce the law against those wrongdoers who are acting in violation of the constitution and rule of law. These officers had carried out their duties duly and honestly without yielding to pressures from whatever side. Following the communiqué which was signed by the police media spokesman Jayakody on the direct instructions of the IGP , with effect from 26th , Jayakody had been removed from his present position by the Rajapakse regime and transferred to the examinations division as Director, and P M H B Siriwardena SP has been appointed as the new police media spokesman Gotabaya had given instructions to the defense Ministry and the State intelligence service to conduct an investigation against Jayakody . The defense Ministry had commenced its investigations. The worst part of this drama and the most dangerous signals were given out when Jayakody received a phone call from an individual holding out death threats to him. The caller had told Jayakody to wipe out his love for his life. The caller’s phone number is 0712 126126. When Lanka e news did an investigation into this phone number, it became known that this phone number is what had been allocated to the defense Ministry by the Mobitel Co. The threatening call had originated therefore from the defense Ministry under the President Mahinda Rajapakse and his brother Gotabaya Rajapakse against the police media spokesman who performed his duties duly and lawfully. In that event if such a threatening call has emerged from the very defense Ministry in charge of the lawful affairs and the national security of the country against a police officer who acted lawfully , the most crucial question is , whom do you complain to , when there is a death threat? From whom can we expect security protection ? Besides , if those in the opposition are also ‘double game’ crooks , isn’t the situation even most perilous and grave ? Following the series of threats and intimidations that were directed against the judiciary , and now with these threats ominously rearing its head against the police , one can imagine in which direction the Rajapakses are heading , and which hellhole the country is being led into.