The transportation of goods on the A9 route to the north is monopolized by the President’s son Namal Rajapaksa and several close friends of the Rajapaksa family even after the government claimed the route was open for transporting goods.
The Defence Ministry it is learnt has issued licenses to 300 Lorries to transport goods through the A9 to the north and a lorry charges a sum of Rs. 124,000 for each trip to the north.
Contractors involved in the Uthuru Vasanthaya programme have been placed in great difficulty due to this move. Several attempts by these
contractors to meet with Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa have failed.
Basil had reportedly promised to enable these contractors easy road access to the north for them to transport goods for their respective projects when they were handed over the projects in the north.
lankanewsweb
Thursday, October 29, 2009
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