UPFA MP Kumara Welgama told Parliament yesterday that all 225 members should take full responsibility for the negligence in taking cognizance of intelligence warnings of the Easter Sunday carnage.
“We do not think of the country and we only think of ourselves.
The Rev.Archbishop appealed to the people to unite and act with patience, but he should say that to the 225 MPs,” he said in parliament yesterday.
Participating in the debate on emergency regulations, MP Welgama said that it was wrong to point fingers at each other and such an attitude would never help this nation to move forward from its present plight. “We should all take the responsibility of these tragic incidents.The intelligence units have sent the warning, which the police had forwarded to the Personal Security Officers of all MPs. So they knew. Now there is no point in playing the blame game and doing politics using this tragedy.
All 225 MPs should face the reality and accept the blame for their mistakes,” MP Welgama said.
He said that the government and opposition members and their supporters should forget their political differences and work together to eliminate the latest threat against national security.