Half Sri Lanka's contracts are corrupt: president
Half of Sri Lanka's public procurement contracts are tainted by bribery and corruption, President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday, nearly two years after he came to power promising to tackle government graft.
The president, who has ordered investigations into alleged widespread corruption under his predecessor, said he could not name names because those exposed would "go on strike from tomorrow".
"I regret to say that organised bribery and corruption is still taking place in government institutions," he told a public meeting of police and anti-corruption activists in Colombo.
"We say call tenders to prevent corruption, but in reality we know that the tender procedures are also corrupt. It happens in over 50 percent of the time."
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