Attempt to arrest Gotabhaya

The former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday, that there is a plan by the government to take into custody the former Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

The main thrust of this government is to imprison him and members of the Rajapaksa family, MPs who are supporting him and senior state officials, he said further.

The former President stated these facts while addressing the 20th conference of the Samurdhi Development and Agricultural Research Production Assistant officers held at the Colombo Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium.

He said further that State officials are being imprisoned using the term public property, and the FCID has been established to take revenge from the Rajapaksas and those State officials who are with them. (Amaradasa Silva)