Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, in a statement, has reminded former President Mahinda Rajapaksa of how he reduced her security in 2007.

‘I have watched with amusement the agitation of the Joint Opposition MP’s regarding the reduction of the security accorded to Hon. Mahinda Rajapaksa,’ she said in her statement.

‘It is a pertinent to remind Hon. Rajapaksa of the manner in which he treated another former President and the Security he accorded her.’

‘In September 2007, 15 months after my retirement, President Rajapaksa and his brother Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who was responsible for the entire security apparatus of the Sri Lanka State instructed the relevant authorities to withdraw every single one of my security personnel, all vehicles and weaponry. I was left without security for two months,’ the statement went on to say. 

‘At present the country is not at war, the security situation is stable and I do not understand how Hon. Rajapaksa can argue that he needs more security and privileges than I do.’