One of the Sunday Newspapers announced today
that the recently illegally impeached CJ will not receive her pension, owing to
her impeachment. As usual the newspaper article was just sensational, not
investigating what component of the pension that she was not going to receive.
Is it just that component that is calculated on her period as CJ? Or all her
pension rights in public service, including as an academician in a Universityand
later as a judge of the SC!! So this is just one example of readers being told
half truths, and the people being duped into believing what is said as just
being plain and simple, NO PENSION.
Why I say this is that educated people who
should know better, come to the same conclusion as the farmer in the rural area
when reading the same article. It goes to the heart of our thinking, our
education system and the lack of reasoning of our citizenry. This follows
directly into the lap of state media manipulation, where all the nonsense
spewed out by the media, especially the state media, is accepted as the truth! KALPANAKARANNA
So before feeling so sorry for the CJ who
did not even avail herself of a duty free vehicle in any time she served as a
public servant (university dons are also permitted such vehicles, though at a
lower value) we must look into the alternatives available to her as an ex-CJ.
She has been offered an international posting in an INGO like the ICC, with a
very prestigious position and a salary of around 10times (pensionable too) of
what she was earning as the CJ.
The problem is that she is prevented from
leaving, until she is able to clear legal hurdles that are against her. The behind
the scenes activity is to iron all those out. I wish Sarath Fonseka understood that
she is not cut out to be a politician and she had better pursue whatever interest
she has, to ensure the security (incl. financial) of herself and her family first
and foremost.
There is no doubt that a future administration
will rule against the impeachment, and restore all the rights she has been denied,
and to that extent she need not worry about today’s withholding of her CJ pension
rights! If she believes she can provide a more beneficial contribution to international
justice from another posting let her do so, as only Sri Lanka is the loser in this
game. Sri Lanka is always the loser in a game where people leave because they have
no recourse to justice in this country. It is a method, by which host countries
gain a huge human resource potential from here, and thanks to the shortsightedness
of a myopic administration, the Country suffers as a result of the policies adopted
by it. Let us agitate for change!
1 comment:
let the shiranthi's of lanka go away. it's the young people of the country that must be kept on these shores if the country is to develop in the future. the most recent census data confirms that SL is an aging population, with the percentage of elderly drastically increasing and the youth and young adult population in serious decline. who will pay for the pensions of the elderly if there are no young people around!!! kalpanakaranna on that!!
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