Kotte Deputy Mayor left in the lurch

Kotte Municipal Council Deputy Mayor Madura VIthanage has expressed his dissatisfaction at the manner in which the police investigated the complaint he had made.

He said he complained to the Welikada Police and the Crime Investigation Division that the computer at his office in the Municipal Council had been stolen but that no action had been taken.

Mr. Vithanage said he would take action if the police did not carry out an investigation. He said he had no personal problems with the Mayor Janaka Ranawaka and that this was not

the first time that he had been affected.

“On an earlier occasion personal computer was stolen and unnecessary pictures inserted. There is an ongoing court case with regard to that,” Mr. Vithanage stated.

He said according to his knowledge Defence Mainistry Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa had instructed that the matter be sorted out and the office returned to me.

Yet nothing has happened so far. If there is no solution I will be taking legal action,” he said.

Meanwhile when Daily Mirror spoke to Mayor Janaka Ranawaka about this matter, he said he did not have any issue with the Deputy Mayor. “The office of the Deputy Mayor was taken over to use for some other purpose,” Mr. Ranawaka said and added that the Deputy Mayor was given a better equipped office and denied that any equipment in the office had been stolen.

However the Deputy Mayor said the office room that was given to him was not suitable for a Deputy Mayor.