With effect from yesterday the VIP security of the Chief monks of Mihinthale has been removed. Because of the said move the opposition leader seemingly became very furious. Sajith Premadasa is threatening to sue, if the security of said monk not deployed .
Along with this article some data has been presented about the SL police. This data was once presented to the Parliament by Sarath Weerasekara when he was the minister in charge of police.
There are about 83000 policemen in Sri Lanka. 40,000 of them are deployed for the protection of limited category who labeled as VIP. The number of people coming under the VIP label is only 5500.
That means half of the entire police department is deployed to protect a few people who are considered VIPs.The remaining Policemen are deploying to the protection 22 million people and properties.
In developed countries there are less than 5% of the troops only deploying for VIP security. But in Sri Lanka it is 47%.
It is worthy to note, VIP protection in Sri Lanka is a dirty political racket. What happens here is politicians, religious leaders, and journalists are giving VIP security as a bribe to tame them towards existing government.
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When a person who has obtained VIP protection and if he makes any statement against government, the VIP protection is removing very next day. Due to this, the concerned persons refrain from working and speaking against existing government.
Mihintale chief monk behaves like a crook . By good or bad, it’s his way getting what he wants. And the politicians who do not pay tribute to him are brutally criticizing, his VIP protection was removed as an extension of it.
Facts being so, How should the opposition leader work in such a situation? Does Sajith’s system change mean maintaining the dirty system of squandering of public money better than before?
