D-Day for Govt. to do

TODAY is D-Day for a still tyro government to stop only saying what it would do and simply get cracking on meaningful action long overdue. It is a time for doing, and a time for refraining from an excess of empty words. And if the outpatient people’s power does not deliver on a Delivery-Day (D-Day) of its own making and promising, the people will have little choice left but to lament on the ash heap that the NPP has lost more than its early promise of late...

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On 17 April 2024, the NPP-led NPP government released a charter promising that under its auspices justice would be delivered to victims of the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

Addressing a press conference, the NPP Executive Council (EC) said the party decided to publish the charter because consecutive governments had failed to deliver justice to those affected by the Easter bombings of April 21 2019.

“Two hundred and seventy-three lives were lost and over 500 people were injured. Today, leaders responsible for failing to prevent the attack are treating it as a joke. Five years later, they still consider it as an insignificant matter,” charged NPP EC member-attorney-at-law Sunil Watagala.

He said that the NPP charter primarily focused on bringing criminal charges against persons such as former president Maithripala Sirisena, who were found to be at fault by the Supreme Court for failing to prevent the attacks and implementing the recommendations made by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Easter Sunday strike.

“Under an NPP government, we pledge to deliver justice and pursue criminal charges against those responsible,” he said.

The charter outlined seven key promises including efforts to apprehend the masterminds behind the attack, expedite the ongoing legal cases related to the bombings as a priority, seek the repatriation of any suspects currently absconding abroad, and establish a comprehensive victim compensation system to support the victims and their families.