Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Easter Sunday Attack on Tuesday (13) that he would have taken steps to prevent the Easter Sunday attack on 21 April 2019 if he had been given the intelligence information at least the day before.

“If the information about the attack had been received on April 20, since there was no President and no Secretary of Defense who could have acted on his behalf in the country, using my authority as the Prime Minister, I would have contacted the President, the Inspector General of Police, the Armed Forces, the Intelligence Service, the Indian High Commission, All Intelligence Services, the Fire Brigade and the Health Authority, convened the cabinet and taken all the necessary measures to prevent the attack,” Wickremesinghe said.

Testifying before the Commission for a second day, former Premier acknowledged that there was a clear breakdown in the country’s security apparatus at the time of the Easter Sunday terror attack.

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