TU leader threatened for exposing corruptions
 

by L.B. Wijayasiri in Kandy

Kandy District Secretary of the Sri Lanka Nidahas Jathika Prawahana Sewaka Sangamaya P.B. Ariyapala has lodged a complain at the police headquarters Kandy that a letter received by him had demanded he resign from his office in the trade union within the next 7 days or face with the death.

He is working as a depot inspector at the Kandy South Depot of the Mahanuwara Bus Company Limited, and he has received the letter in question at his office by post on March 29.

He has been threatened further that he should put up a banner opposite the depot announcing his resignation.

Criminal Investigation Department is now inquiring into a spate of complains against some of directors and higher officials of involving in corrupt practices involving lakhs of funds of the bus company.

The union secretary claimed that trade unionists including himself had explained matters against those officials in connection with their involvement in the alleged corrupt practices, and as a result he was being threatened.