The Minister of Justice Ali Sabri insists on worker’s strikes in Ports, Customs, Water Supply and Drainage Board, Ceylon Electricity Board, Petroleum Corporation and Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) should be banned.
Addressing a radio program on Neth FM, he said that such trade union action should be prohibited by the country’s constitution.
The second option is to create a rapid deployment force, the justice minister says.
Minister Sabri said the President was taking a very lenient approach to such situations, adding that Sri Lanka needed a strong President at present.
“I think the president is too lax. We wanted a president who would take a strong stance in such instances.
It is clear that big agenda for sabotage is at work. No sense of country. Politicians are blamed for everything. “
If the C.E.B. makes losses who should be accountable? Only politicians? Don entire CEB staff have to be responsible? Don’t engineers have to be responsible? This is a complicated thing. Something that has been around for a while. This cannot be resolved quickly. I personally believe that the President is too lax. The people of the country expected a tougher president. “
But the president often says he wants to be heard in a democratic society, said Justice Minister Alice Sabri.
