“On the day of this incident, our former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that he was stepping down and the day before that we had brought a group from Galle to say goodbye to him and bring people to congratulate him.
They went to Temple Trees. The ultimate wish of the majority of those who came here was to bid farewell to the Prime Minister who had served this country for a long time on the day he resigned. We were present at that meeting.
At the end of this meeting we regret to mention that some stupid politicians indirectly influenced the people who came here. They need to be accepted. Less than 10% of those who came under that influence marched on the Galle Road with the mentality that they should attack Gota Gogama.
That incident was a very unfortunate incident. This struggle has been here for a month. His Excellency the President and the government never had any interest in throwing a stone at this agitation. But after that unfortunate incident a group of people went here and when that group left, I was at Temple Trees at that time. I sat there and spoke to DIG Tennakoon. This unfortunate incident is going to happen. Please stop this. Mr. DIG Tennakoon told me, no problem sir, all the road blocks have been put up and we will stop this.
Giving that telephone call, I went to the Presidential Palace for a meeting of the President. When I went to that meeting I was called by former Member of Parliament Ashu Marasinghe. He called and said that there was going to be a big problem Minister, tell the President to stop this immediately.
Then I told the President that there was a discussion with the President, a big problem sir, there is going to be a big crisis here and he should intervene immediately and stop it.
Then the President was in front of us, there were several ministers. I got a phone call. I told him in the morning that this was going to happen. The IGP said that water cannons should not be used for this. He said he spoke at 12.40, the IGP said directly, the DIG told the President that the IGP had told him not to stop this.
The President told you that I was the President of the country, and it was only after the President said that he would stop immediately that the President took action to stop this journey with tear gas.
The fact is that the IGP and the Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security ordered that the idiots who went to stop this attack not be stopped. ”
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