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Pots and kettles at war
The Island
|September 08, 2025
The NPP government and the Opposition have locked horns over the detection of a huge stock of chemicals, believed to have been smuggled in two freight containers, for manufacturing crystal methamphetamine (popularly known as ICE) in a factory belonging to notorious underworld figure, Kehelbaddara Padme (KB) currently in detention.
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NPP politicians and their propagandists are in overdrive to implicate the entire SLPP in the drug trade on the grounds that the consignment of precursor chemicals had been concealed in a property belonging to a former SLPP local councillor described as an accomplice of KB.
Ironically, a few weeks after legalising the cultivation of cannabis for export despite protests, the NPP government has sought to discredit its political rivals by flogging an issue related to local narcotic production. The SLPP has sacked the suspect wanted in connection with the consignment or precursor chemicals. It and other Opposition parties have claimed that the chemicals smuggled in for ICE production were found in two of the 323 containers released via the green channel at the Colombo Port at the behest of the NPP government, in January 2025.
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