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All purchases are made in line with procedures, not arbitrarily: Sathosa Chairman

06 Dec 2020

All purchases through Sathosa are made by following a clearly defined procurement framework which was decided by a committee rather than one single individual, Lanka Sathosa Chairman Nushad M Perera said today. He said this in a statement in response to a remarks made by Jathika Jana Balawegaya (JJB) MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Parliament on December 4. The statement said MP Dissanayake has said that “Soon as the Import duty was reduced Sathosa Chairman made an irregular purchase of 5,000 MT Sugar from a close associate of himself and that of a VVIP” “The procurement was carried out though a Ministerial Procurement Committee (MPC) which is chaired by the Secretary to Ministry of Trade along with officials from the Ministry of Finance as well as Chairman of Lanka Sathosa as members. “In addition, a Technical committee sits along with the Procurement Committee. The technical committee consists of an Additional Secretary to Ministry of Trade, a senior official from Ministry of Agriculture, the Food Technologist of CWE and DGM Finance CWE Security. “The said procurement of sugar was carried out on 20th October 2020 adhering to all procurement guidelines by the above committee and was the lowest quoted price for Sugar at the procurement tender (MPC/064). The total purchased sugar quantity was 750 Metric tons which is the weekly consumption demand and not 5,000 MT as stated by the Hon MP in Parliament and at no time has there been any pressure exerted upon him by HE the President to make any purchases from anyone,” it said.

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