Who is kidding whom?
All the newspapers are full of a full
page advertisement taken by the GOSL trumpeting this investment of Rs 720,000
Million or in effect Rs 720Billion as the largest FDI ever! In includes the Oil
Refinery referred to above with a company by the name of Silver Park Petroleum
Private Limited and another investment of a cement producer by the name of
Lanwa Sanstha Cement Corporation Private Limited. So I ask the question what to
believe?
Is there a conspiracy to discredit the
Government by parties coming to the BOI and fooling them to sign documents
regarding FDIs and immediately having one of the parties to the agreement, or
at least purported parties, denying its very existence? This is tantamount to
taking the GOSL for a ride, and they seem to be quite blasé about being taken
for a ride, especially when the BOI spokesperson assures the media that nothing
is amiss, when a lot of this is all A MISS INFORMATION!
Who is behind this disinformation
conspiracy? Should this kind of thing be a red rag to the intelligence agencies
of this country, as it clearly the undermines the authority of the State in a
way that discredits anything that is disclosed by the state?
I bet the intelligence agencies are
sleeping soundly tonight and will wake up to this news this morning, and say
this has nothing to do with us, we only worry about gun running or conspiracies
to do away with the already discredited top brass of the land!
This is far more serious stuff, and we
don’t have an intelligence agency to investigate the legitimacy of the jokers
who come into the offices of the BOI to tell tales.
Frankly, if we have any sense, every
Johnny, the investor and their local handlers, as soon as they walk in the door
of the BOI to meet the DG or the Chairman, should be in the SPYGLASS of the
defense intelligence agencies and a report placed on the President’s desk
within 24 hours of their entering about their bona fides, and past history,
especially Interpol records, as it seems that only the low life of the world
knowing the way we seem to attract them like flies venture inside, if they feel
that there is an opportunity at some kind of fleecing of a nation.
Now it is time to get back to basics. We
are talking of a huge investment in an oil refinery in Hambantota! Has anyone
in the environment lobby even been activated on this, as oil refineries are no
longer being built anywhere in the world, and only Sri Lanka seems to even
encourage one as we seem to be so desperate for headaches of the future!
Yes please we will have one.
What kind of Country is this? How about
an investment in an offshore solar electricity generation plant to supply the
region instead with the potential to grow? No we are waiting to import surplus
electricity from a Nuclear Plant in India instead, as that would provide us
cheap electricity sometime in the future!
I digress, just to make a point and to
belittle this hair-brained scheme!
After all we should have had the Iranian
Refinery that was on the cards 30 years ago when it was discussed, we would not
have had to spend BILLIONS of dollars in foreign exchange in this period for
refined petroleum products if we had then. Moreover there was no environment
lobby then to put the skids on.
Now once the need for fossil fuel has
passed, as they are only pollutants that no one in their RIGHT MINDS want, we
are getting in on the act!
My God help Mother Lanka from its own
leaders!
Further clarification on this denial by the Financial Times of 21st March 2019
http://www.ft.lk/front-page/Oman-denies-it-has-agreed-to-invest-in-Sri-Lanka-oil-refinery-project/44-675045
Further clarification on this denial by the Financial Times of 21st March 2019
http://www.ft.lk/front-page/Oman-denies-it-has-agreed-to-invest-in-Sri-Lanka-oil-refinery-project/44-675045
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