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MINISTERS SONS HAVE A JOLLY TIME TURNING NIGHT SPOTS OF BIG HOTELS INTO BATTLE GROUNDS AIDED BY MINISTERIAL ARMED GUARDS
By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles While the ordinary people of the country were starving without adequate foods and suffering to get clothes for this festive season of Christmas, well fed and well dressed sons of the Ministers of the Ranil Wickremesinghe government were hanging out in the opulent night clubs of the big hotels making them into virtual battle grounds charged People’s Alliance spokesman Dr. Sarath Amunugama . He was apparently referring to the Colombo’s night club fights where four sons of cabinet ministers were involved turning the high class night spot into virtual battle ground aided by the security officers hired by the tax payer money to protect not these fighting sons but their fathers who hold elected offices. It has become very fashionable for the young sons of certain ministers not only to show off their girl friends but also their fathers’ ministerial might by bringing over armed security guards of the politician fathers, provided by the state, to the dancing halls they hang out. Often, when these sons are involved in drunken brawls in the night clubs or dancing halls of Colombo’s major hotels the security guards have to fight for their young masters too, police officers say. Recently, complaints have been made to the police where two rowdy sons of Minister S.B.Dissanayaka and two equally hotheaded sons of Mahinda Wijesekera were involved in a clash with lesser powers. One of the girl friends of a Dissanayaka boy also had been present in one of the incidents, it was complained. Hemasiri Fernando a former secretary to the late Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike has complained to the police that his son was assaulted by 15 people including the sons and the security guards of the ministers in one of these brawls. He said, these security guards are hired by the government to protect state ministers. But they are actually employed to fight for the young sons of the ministers. Others complain that this is not the first time the same young men turned hotel functions into battle grounds. In one of those earlier incidents , a JVP publication charged that the Raavaya, edited by Victor Ivan refused to publish the story due to his friendship with a minister father. (EOM) (21/12/02 go2lanka.com) |