Living Legend ට සැර කනේ පාරක්!

 Living Legend ට සැර කනේ පාරක්!

“අනං මනං එපා - Royal එකේ හොරකම් ගැන කතාකරන්න” class-mate Earle Amarasekera කියයි!

Subject: YOUR EXCELLENT MESSAGE

 

MY DEAR LORENZE.,

THANK YOU FOR INCLUDING ME ON YOUR EXCELLENT MESSAGE, RECEIVED YESTERDAY.

I HAVE CHOSEN TO TRY AND STEP DOWN FROM MIUCH THAT JAS GONE ON DIURING THE PAST FEW YEARS, AS NOTHING SEEMS TO HAVE CHANGED IN THE PAST

3 OR 4 YEARS.

HOWEVER, I FEEL I MUST STATE MY OPINION ON HOW I READ THE SITUATION AND MY THOUGHTS ON THE MATTER OF FINANCES, BETWEEN 2015 AND THE PESENT DAY.

I VISITED SRI LANKA FOR THE BIG MATCH IN MARCH 2023. A FEW DAYS LATER, FOR THE FIRST TIME, I READ IN THE PAPERS, SOME DETAILS RELATING TO MSSING

RS.16,5 MILLION FROM THE GATE RECEIPTS FROM THE RUGBY MATCHES, ALLEGEDLY IN 2015/2016 (I THINK), ABOUT 7 YEARS LATER.!! I ALSO RECALL,  FOLLOWING A LOVELY DINNER WITH I S AND FAMILY , A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS MATTER.

I HAVE SINCE READ VARIOUS ARTICLES ABOUT THIS MATTER AND WAS PLEASED TO HEAR THAT THE ALLEGED CULPRIT (ONLY??)  HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED AND SINCE THEN, MANY ARTICLES ABOUT HOW THESE VAST SUMS WERE TO BE SETTLED, OVER A COUPLE OF YEARS AND THAT THE CULPRIT, WAS NOT BEING JAILED.!!! AMUSINGLY, IN THE SAME NEWSPAPER, WAS AN ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPH OF AN ELDERLY MAN, WITH AN OLD TOILET UNIT, CARRIED ON HIS HEAD, WHICH HE SAYS HE THOUGHT HAD BEEN ABANDONED BUT WAS JAILED FOR I, THINK 3 YEARS.!!(IRONIC, OR WHAT??).     

ALTHOUGH THIS WAS SRI LANKA AND NOT BRITAIN, IT AFFECTED MY ROYAL SENSE OF JUSTICE.

I HAVE SINCE REGULARLY READ AND HEARD OF THE PROGRESS ON THE RECOVERY OF THE STOLEN MONEY, BUT, I AM BAFFLED AT THE  EXPLANATIONT THIS ALLEGED LONE  CULPRIT, HAD COMMITTED THIS ROBBERY OVER A PERIOD OF 2 YEARS AND DID NOT COME TO LIGHT FOR 7 YEARS AND NO BLAME,TRANSPARENCY OR ACCOUNTABILITY FROM THE PRINCIPAL(S), R C U HIERARCHY, THE ACCOUNTANTS, AUDITORS, RUGBY MASTERS,), OR ANYONE ELSE, WHY IT TOOK 7 YEARS AND MORE, TO COME TO LIGHT, WITHOUT COMMENT.!!! I SUPPOSE, I HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS THE NORM IN SRI LANKA AND EVEN IN THE MUCH-REVERED ROYAL COLLEGE. OR, WAS ANYONE ELSE, COMPLICIT WITH THE ALLEGED, LONE CULPRIT.!!

IT IS NOW OVER 70 YEARS SINCE I LEFT COLLEGE AND SRI LANKA, BUT CONTINUED WITH MY GRATITUDE TO ROYAL COLLEGE, BY BEING AN ACTIVE AND COMMITTED MEMBER, COMMITTEE MEMBER AND PRESIDENT OF ORAUK, FOR 20 YEARS OR MORE. SADLY HOWEVER, I HAVE, SURREPTIOUSLY BEEN EDGED OUT OF THE COMMITTEE, WHILST THE FOCUS OF ORAUK, HAS IN THE PAST 4 YEARS, HAS BEEN TOWARDS MAKING PAYMENTS TO THE R C U (without the consent or approval of all our ORAUK  membership) WHICH SHOULD RIGHTLY BE FUNDED BY THE R C U, SDS, OR OTHER AUTHORITY.  

MY DEAR FRIEND, COLLEAGUE, CLASSMATE AND VENRATED OLD ROYALIST, I WILL LEAVE IT TO YOU, AS TO WHOM YOU WOULD OR WOULD NOT SEND THIS TO, AS THESE ARE, ONLY MY DOUBTS ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RCU AND MY BELOVED ORAUK, WHICH OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS HAS RESULED IN A NUMBER OF OUR MEMBERS, DROPPING PUT.!!

MY SINCERE LOVE & BLESSINGS TO YOU AND KUMI.

EARLE