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No corruption and irregularities in post tsunami reconstruction activities - President

PRESIDENT Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has dismissed allegations levelled against the Government by certain international media that there was corruption and irregularities in post tsunami reconstruction activities.

Speaking at a live interview telecast to mark the 25th anniversary of CNN, ATS, President Kumaratunga said she did not know why the media was saying the tsunami reconstruction work was not happening in Sri Lanka or there was corruption.

She said this responding to a question by a journalist who interviewed the President about the progress of the post tsunami relief work in Sri Lanka.

She said: "I like to answer the question you raised. I do not know how some media persons say that the tsunami reconstruction work is not happening in Sri Lanka or that there is corruption, because after the aftermath of the Tsunami catastrophe more than 120 heads of State including the UN Secretary General, Heads of UN Agencies, International VIPs and every single one of them have travelled in the country and those who have been informed by their Ambassadors in Sri Lanka, every one of them have told us and the newspapers of Sri Lanka and abroad, that Sri Lanka is an exemplary case of how well the tsunami reconstruction or any reconstruction after a natural disaster of this magnitude has been handled.

"Just a few days ago we had the second visit from President Bill Clinton, the special envoy of the UN Secretary General and he made a clear public statement which was carried in all the newspapers that Sri Lanka has handled the tsunami reconstruction very well.

There is no corruption because we do not distribute cash. Every single tsunami family is entitled to an allowance of Rs. 5,000 a month. From the month of January they collect them (the money) from the State Bank and I do not know how there could be corruption,or irregularities."

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