Sri Lanka, Oct. 13 -- Public security Minister Ananda Wijepala has stated that former Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena have requested the bullet-proof vehicles they had returned to the state following the passage of the Presidents' Entitlement Bill on September 10.
He showed positive signs that those vehicles could be returned to the former Presidents with the approval of the Threat Assessment Committee of his ministry.
Why the former Presidents handed over those vehicles to the state and later requested them back is the question which arises here. If the government instructed them to hand them over to the state, why should the minister later announce that they could be returned upon a request by the former President...