26 November 2022 12:00 am Views - 227
By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana
Private sector suppliers of electricity are ones who are close associates of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) employees while they hire out their vehicles to the board, a government MP told Parliament yesterday.
Speaking during the committee stage debate on the budget, SLPP MP Mahindananda Aluthgamage said more than 50 per cent of the 1,600 vehicles which are used by the CEB are ones which are hired from its own employees which include engineers.
“The private suppliers of power to CEB are close associates of its own employees,” the MP also said.
“CEB should be unbundled to stop this corruption. Therefore, I suggest that transmission, generation and development should be divided into three sections,” he stressed.
“Excess staff at CEB is another grave issue. There were only 16,000 employees attached to CEB in 2015, however, the number of employees have been arisen to 26,000 by 2020,” the MP revealed.