COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s incumbent police chief has refused to step down over the Easter Sunday suicide attacks despite President Maithripala Sirisena on ...
Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard next to a store near St. Anthony’s Shrine in Colombo on April 28, 2019, a week after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka. — AFP: Sri Lanka’s incumbent police chief has refused to step down over the Easter Sunday suicide attacks despite President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday naming his successor.
Sirisena said Friday that police chief Pujith Jayasundara had resigned but Jayasundara never sent the letter, officials said, and has remained in his government residence. The president has now named Deputy Inspector-General Chandana Wickramaratne as acting police chief, an official involved in the process said.
Sirisena had accused Jayasundara of failing to act on intelligence reports warning that suicide bombers were likely to target churches. The Easter Sunday attacks left 253 dead and a major political row has ensued.“This means Jayasundara is effectively suspended pending his formal removal through an impeachment motion in parliament.”The country’s top defence ministry official, Hemasiri Fernando, resigned last week after he too was told by the president to step down over the security failure.
The government has declared a state of emergency and deployed thousands of troops for search operations against Islamist extremists since the coordinated attacks.
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