Please let me go home - Polls Chief

IN A moving end to yesterday's proceedings at the Elections Secretariat, Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake urged incoming President Mahinda Rajapakse to permit him to retire.

Dissanayake, who claimed he had worked four years past the retirement age, said it was time to call it a day.

"I have only one request to the new President. Please let me go home," he said, adding that he needed to enjoy a more leisurely pace of life in retirement.

Dissanayake unsuccessfully sought legal action to compel the authorities to retire him several years ago.