Large sums to buy members - JNP

Lakshmi de Silva

Over a long period of time some politicians in the payroll of certain foreign powers used large sums of money to buy certain members of the legislature to assist in their anti-national agendas. The case of trying to buy over our Member of Parliament Mohamed Muzzamil was one such attempted crime and we are going to take appropriate legal steps tomorrow, JNP leader Wimal Weerawansa said yesterday.

Addressing a press conference at the JNP office Battaramulla Weerawansa played the recorded voice tapes of conversations between Myown Mustapaha. Ravi Karunanayake and Malik Samarawickrama with Mohamed Muzzamil.

He said in addition to the large sum of money – in bundles of two thousand and thousand rupee currency notes not counted - as yet other things too were given to Muzzamil. These things will be produced before the proper authorities, he noted.

The number of persons who had crossed over to the NDF would have been bought over by the same elements who are attempting to destabilize the country.

Certain western embassies were behind Ranil Wickremesinghe and the NDF candidate was only a front man. Their objective was to bring President Mahinda Rajapaksa before the international guillotine as he had defeated their pet the LTTE terrorists.

When NDF candidate Sarath Fonseka and TNA leader R.Sampanthan signed the pact to betray the country LTTE sympathizers and activists in the west had held celebrations over it, dancing for joy. However when the armed forces defeated terrorists people in their millions irrespective of their party affiliations hoisted national flags in joy. Those people cannot be bought for dirty money of the corrupt anti-national politicians, he noted.

JNP Parliamentarian Muzzammil associated with Wimal Weerawansa said he accepted the bribe deceiving the UNP members who had asked him to cross over the DNF camp only to expose their dishonest political scheme to the public.

He interpreted the taped Tamil conversations to Sinhala he said he had with Myown Mustapha. He further said there were discussions on an offer of Rs 30 million bribe to cross over to the NDF.

He had taken a risk but was determined to expose the anti-national elements who were betraying the country.