17 August 2022 03:41 pm
Former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is set to return to the country on August 24, Former Sri Lankan ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga hinted today.
He told the media after giving a statement to the CID on MIG Deal that the former President would render a service to the country.
When asked whether he was saying it with responsibility, he said he was saying so at this moment. “The date could change. I am saying it with responsibility today. I can’t help if he changes the date later,” he said.
When asked whether Gotabaya Rajapaksa would engage in politics again, he said he was not a clever politician but a clever officer. “I don’t think our people should be foolish again. He is not a clever person as a politician. He is a clever military officer. He does not have any quality that Mahinda Rajapaksa has. That is why he got all wrong,” he said.