(Lanka-e-News -21.April.2016, 11.45PM) An attempt to cheat in a sum of Rs. 5000 million ! under the pretext of making Sri Lanka (SL) self sufficient in milk production had fortunately been put in abeyance for the moment , based on reports reaching Lanka e news.
The culprits behind this colossal racket are none other than those of the erstwhile Rajapakse regime , and the wheeler dealer is no less a person than Sumal Perera the chief of ‘Access,’ in this Rs. 5000 million ‘milk’ racket which is milking dry mother Lanka. Interestingly this Sumal Perera is a cousin brother of Dilan Perera who is infamously famous for honeyed words and stupid utterances.
This Sumal Perera the wheeler dealer who gobbled up public funds jointly with the Rajapakses during their ‘ ‘nefarious regime’ has now ingratiated himself into the favor of the government of good governance . That is along with the corrupt scoundrels of Rajapakse era now with the good governance government he has turned into a hybrid . Sumal Perera planned his ‘milking dry mother Lanka’ milk racket as follows :
The Rajapakses claiming that they were going to make SL self sifficient in milk , wanted to import pregnant heifers from Australia . With this in view a commercial loan at high interest rate from a bank ‘Rado,’ of Netherlands was taken, and Basil Rajapakse got down 2500 such heifers during the Rajapakse era.
After the present gvernment came into power the remaining part was to be completed. Sumal Perera obtained the permission of the Finance ministry to import 20,000 pregnant heifers from Wellard , Australia , a company that exports milking cows , but the controversial issue erupted when Sumal Perera quoted Rs. 700,000.00 as the price of a pregnant heifer whereas the actual price is Rs. 450,000.00 approximately. Moreover , this deal has been granted to Sumal Perera without calling for tender bids !
Minister Harrison in charge of animal husbandry on hearing of this price and the quotation had questioned , ‘are these golden cows?’ Sumal Perera has included in this price his profit component of Rs. 250,000.00 on each heifer. The total profit therefore on 20,000 heifers is a whopping Rs.5000,000,000.00 !! Mind you since this is based on a government loan , it is the people who will have to pay back these loans together with interest , like how the people are now paying for the egregious sins committed by the Rajapakses and their curse of the shawl corrupt administration of the past.
Even the prime minister had expressed his resentment at the agreement that had been signed by the Rajapakses. This is because the loan taken from the Rado bank is a commercial loan on prohibitive rates of interest . Consequently , the mega deal of wheeler dealer Sumal Perera had been suspended , though it had not been completely cancelled.
When Lanka e news inquired from an owner of a Cattle farm in Dambulla that produced milk for the last 30 years about the import of Sumal Perera’s ‘ golden heifers,’ he had this to say …
If SL is to be made self sufficient in milk , getting down high quality cows which could augment the production is necessary , but why should the government import them ? he questioned. If the government is not interested in importing the necessary hens for the farms, why is the government seeking to import cows ? the owner of the cattle farm questioned, while proposing to the government, to give permission to the cattle farm owners to get down the cows to meet their requirements under its aid and survey program ,in which case the ‘brokers’ and intermediaries lining their pockets with billions can be eliminated. Besides , simply importing pregnant heifers spending heavily , without a follow up program to improving on the next generation of those heifers is meaningless,’ he added.
The cattle farm owner also went on to ask, what is the knowledge Sumal Perera has on cattle farming and milk production to import these pregnant heifers? when Sumal Perera is only well known as one who would even get down bullets if he can make a fast buck from that , if that serves his selfish aims and objectives.
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Cows don't get pregnant with milk out of nothing or for nothing.One needs a bull to sweet-talk the cows. The last person waiting in line to cary out such a noble deed should be Sumal Perera 'cause he's just talking bullocks and nothing much else but exclusively with the ulterior motive of getting fat on a steady supply of golden punnakku.
-- by B. Bultjens on 2016-04-22
When farmers in NZ and Australia are sending thousands of dairy cows to the meat processors to cutback on feed expenses due to the very low milk prices at the world milk solids auctions, Srilanka wants to pay good money which the country can hardly aford to a man who has robbed the poor that make almost 25% of the population.
-- by Patrick Rodrigo on 2016-04-24
Why on earth does Sri Lanka need pregnant cows from out side @ Rs. 700,000.00??????? Don't we have enough resources to have our own 20,000 cows???
People should get together and beat these bloody politicians and their aids like this Perera to death. Look at the luxurious cars on Sri Lankan roads!!!! How can people afford to buy them?? No one can buy with hard earned money!! corruption is in the blood of Sri Lankan system now.
What bloody "Yahapalanaya"???? These bugers are no better than the earlier fellows.
-- by Udapila on 2016-05-07
