Mihin Lanka suffering losses due to President’s foreign trips - Tissa
June 12, 2012 01:52 pm
Sri Lanka’s low-cost carrier Mihin Lanka is incurring losses due to President Mahinda Rajapaksa personally using aircrafts for his foreign trips, the United National Party (UNP) charged.
The President along with his delegations have used the services of the airline to visit around 20 states since the year 2006, UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake claimed at a press briefing today.
The Minister External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris, he says, has presently used the services of Mihin Lanka to travel to over 15 nations while “none of those visits have benefited the country.”
The parliamentarian stated that the purpose of those visits had been to ward off their “bad luck.”
On fuel prices, Attanayake pointed out that crude oil prices reducing in the global market has made it possible for the government to provide a litre of petrol at Rs. 90-92, however it is unable to do so due to corruption in the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation.
He said that the public has had to bear the losses suffered from importing substandard fuel.
The President along with his delegations have used the services of the airline to visit around 20 states since the year 2006, UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake claimed at a press briefing today.
The Minister External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris, he says, has presently used the services of Mihin Lanka to travel to over 15 nations while “none of those visits have benefited the country.”
The parliamentarian stated that the purpose of those visits had been to ward off their “bad luck.”
On fuel prices, Attanayake pointed out that crude oil prices reducing in the global market has made it possible for the government to provide a litre of petrol at Rs. 90-92, however it is unable to do so due to corruption in the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation.
He said that the public has had to bear the losses suffered from importing substandard fuel.
