Merv warns media

9 September 2010 12:12 pm Views - 8379

Deputy Highways Minister Mervyn Silva, at a function in Kelaniya today warned that if some media continue to report the way they do they will have to face the same fate as detained Parliamentarian Sarath Fonseka.

The Deputy Minister said journalists should not write in a way which would ultimately force them to be hanged.

While claiming that a certain newspaper will not sell without news about him the Deputy Minister later urged the media to scold him if they must but at the same time report only the truth.

“When you look at some of these people who write about me and scold me I personally know their background is not good,” he said.

Mervyn Silva was just yesterday reappointed to his post in the government after he was cleared by an SLFP disciplinary committee from charges against him involving an incident where he had tied a Sumurdhi official to a tree in Kaleniya. (Daily Mirror online)