Promoted Major General
Rafik Jalaldeen
Military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe has been promoted to the rank
of Major General. He assumed duty as the Military Spokesman with effect
from yesterday at the Media Centre for National Security. He has been
appointed as Military Spokesman apart from his present positions as
Chief Signals officer and Chief Controller of the Centre for Research
and Development under the Defence Ministry.
Meanwhile former Military Spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara has
been appointed to the post of Chief Field Engineer of the Army.
Brigadier Prasad Samarasinghe is an old boy of Ananda College, joined
the Army in 1980. |