Sri Lanka police say President Maithripala Sirisena is opposed to have them testify before a parliamentary inquiry into intelligence failures that preceded the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people.
FILE - This Sunday, April 21, 2019, file photo shows the inside of St. Sebastian's Church damaged in a blast in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka. Police say President Maithripala Sirisena is opposed to having them testify before a parliamentary inquiry into intelligence failures that preceded the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed more than 250 people.
Police said in a statement that Sirisena met with senior officers Friday evening and told them he doesn’t favor intelligence officers being summoned by a parliamentary committee to discuss sensitive details in the presence of the media. Sirisena promised to protect officers who refuse to attend the committee hearings, according to the police.
Jayasundara also said that Sirisena had asked him not to attend the National Security Council meetings since last October, when Sirisena fired Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in a power struggle that triggered a seven-week political crisis. Wickremesinghe was subsequently reinstated by the Supreme Court.
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