40 officers for 9 participants !! Most vital doctor not in the touring group but a pseudo trainer taken along
(Lanka-e-News -14.Aug.2016, 11.55PM) Sri Lanka National Olympics has become a hotbed of corruption and rackets with Hemasiri Fernando at its helm pretending as the ‘Olympic champion.’ Hemasiri has been best known as a chameleon despite parading as ‘Olympic champion,’ wherever and whenever he held positions and as one who is all the time obsessed with achieving only his own self seeking goals and self centered gains.
The sports ministry is unable to probe into the perfidies and rackets because the Committee has been brought under the International Olympics Committee .The National Olympic Committee annually receives many thousands of dollars from the International Olympics Committee towards development of sports , and enhancement of tournament standards.
The all powerful official of this Committee for over a decade is Hemasiri Fernando. He has made it his nest best known for nefarious purposes , and he pretends he is the monarch of all what he surveys. Beginning from the time of Chandrika Bandaranaike , followed by Mahinda Rajapakse and the present UNP , no official general meeting had been held throughout that period.
In fact , former Minister Mahindananda made a loud din that the three Fernandos who are monopolizing the sports arena shall be chased out , but before Hemasiri the crooked champion cum chameleon ,he was no match.
Hemasiri who doesn’t care two hoots for the sportsmen and sportswomen , once abused Susanthika in raw filth .On the last occasion too he had furiously berated Indrajith Cooray the leader of the Sri Lankan team in front of the Olympics secretary just before the team left for the Rio Olympics .
Hemasiri who built an Olympic ‘mansion’ out of National Olympic funds in Colombo 07 ,gave away half of it to a Chinese Restaurant . Yet there is nobody to probe into what murky activities and cash flow are taking place within it.
Another ace crook Maxwell De Silva cast in the same mould of Hemasiri is the secretary of the Olympics Committee . They are birds of a feather racketing together .This scoundrel who had done nothing beneficial towards Sri Lanka’s sports was the officer in charge of the Olympic team for Rio games , while at the same time enjoying all the perks and privileges of the secretarial position. His wife and daughter are currently in Brazil. His daughter who has been provided the opportunity to be a voluntary worker there treats every sportsman and sportswoman like lackeys and slaves.
A majority of journalists who promote sports in SL are lackeys and lickspittles of Hemasiri and Maxwell. These scoundrels who do not say or write a word against these two diddling duo , sell their professional dignity and ethics only to get berths with the others when touring abroad. They even hurriedly cast aside their dresses even ready to travel nude if they are given an opportunity to do a foreign tour.
It is Dinesh Weerawansa of Lake House who is the favorite henchman of this diddling and national wealth pilfering duo. Dinesh who was attached to the Daily news like a fungus for many years as a Sports editor got himself transferred to the Observer as chief editor using the equally or more unscrupulous and corrupt Mahinda Rajapakse .
This rascal with satanic traits who held the post of editor Observer for 9 years during the Mahinda Rajapakse’s era , without entrusting the Daily news sports editor task to another , exploiting that position too went on the foreign tours continuously for SAAF, Asian and Olympic games . Dinesh who went on tours fully sponsored by the Olympic Committee made it a habit to get around countless sponsors for himself . Consequently , Dinesh the culprit who went for some time as a journalist now joins the touring team mostly as a media guest.
Unbelievably Dinesh Weerawansa the masquerader has travelled to the Rio Olympics as a trainer . This is the biggest joke of the century ! In fact this is the biggest insult inflicted on the genuine trainers by the SL Olympic committee. What is even most irksome and irritating is Hemasiri of all people who parades as a paragon of virtue not including a doctor in the Olympic team but including bogus trainers like Dinesh. This being a most serious corrupt and sinister action , the Parliament ought to probe into this. Hemasiri who loudly blabbers against corruption and perfidies as he opens the mouth must offer an explanation in this regard to the nation . If not the nation is going to ask which stinking orifice he uses to blabber against corruption. Surely he cannot be using the mouth while himself indulging in corruption and perfidies brazenly.
The other shady character in the Olympic Committee is Harin Perera. For sometime he has been travelling with the Olympic touring teams as a reporter though he never reports to any media. Now he had launched his own website. Prins Gunasekera of Dinamina is another play acting character like him. He doesn’t permit anybody else to tour with the Olympic team , and travels on every Olympics team tour. He was Kolonnawa local body member during the Rajapakse era , and after the end of that era , while these rascals and scoundrels are augmenting their political power within Lake House , Saman Wagaarachis are in a deep slumber. Though the latter were appointed to put Lake House on the right track, it seems their own two wheels at the bottom are not moving on the right track.
Minister of Sports Dayasiri Jayasekera who brags publicly about providing the necessary facilities to the trainees is now leaving behind all his tasks and is running after the Olympic ‘travels and tours.’ He too along with his media secretary and a group have gone on the tour.
There are only nine participants in this year’s Rio Olympic games. Yet , believe it or not as many as 40 officials have arrived in Brazil. It is noteworthy these expenditures are met out of people’s funds. An air ticket to Rio Olympic games is nearly Rs. 400,000.00 !!
A far as we are aware , until SL can look forward to an Olympic medal , it cannot feel proud. After Duncan White and Susanthika , there seems to be no prospects of such a sportsman or sportswoman being produced.
Neither the Olympics Committee nor the Ministry of sports seems to have any need or interest to develop sports in SL and raise its standards . What concerns them is tours and travels at the expense of games , sports and the country, in order to make those foreign ‘shopping’ tours . Their attitude is ‘devil may care’ for it is the government that is defraying all their expenses. The media personnel who point these out are also no longer extant in this country – because they have also joined this bandwagon of culprits whose obsession is going around the world until dooms day (not in ‘eighty days’) using the Olympic games banner.
( In the photograph is masquerading Dinesh Weerawansa the pseudo trainer , and the sports officers )
Translated by Jeff
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Sport minister should answer to these unwarranted expenditure of taking 40 officials through public funds. If the allegation is proven right , money spent on all those officials went on Olympic leisure tour should be recovered from Ministers personnel funds. If he is not doing that citizen forces should go to courts to get court ruling on this and recover public funds used for private purposes.
-- by piyal on 2016-08-15