He has stated that as with all other extra judicial killings, abductions, involuntary disappearances and killing of protesters, there is no reason to believe that there will be independent investigations and a proper judicial process initiated, in this double murder. "Such is the efficiency of this Secretary to the Defense Ministry, who brags that crime in Sri Lanka has not increased as opposition politicians claim," he has observed. He has noted that a Secretary who takes pride in being the almighty of defense and enforcement of law and order, having the police department too under his administration, is totally responsible for all custodial killings and the serious increase in sexual abuse of children and various other crimes in the country. The UNP MP has further stated that it is under this same Secretary to the Ministry of Defense that for the first time the public heard, of a group of police personnel taking into contract killing and also an army officer getting into the business of killing for money and that two police stations were completely mobbed by villagers for custodial killing of youth. "This country, cannot afford to allow such an inefficient, non administrative service person to handle a serious and important ministry as its Secretary, and allow the country to go chaotic and into anarchy," he has observed. According to Samaraweera, people of this country, whatever their political affiliations cannot live with such unsolved crime, dictated by politically backed armed thugs under a Secretary, who is not even willing to accept he is a total failure as a state officer. He has noted that the UNP did not believe the shooting and killing at Katuwana, Hambantota would be independently investigated and solved under the Secretary of the Defense Ministry. Samaraweera has demanded that the Secretary to the Ministry of Defense be immediately removed and the position be vested with a career administrator, as the first step in restoring sanity in law enforcement.
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