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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 6313360" data-attributes="member: 92282">[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]Presidential Candidate General Sarath Fonseka has been denied extra security for his Presidential Campaign. According to Fonseka the security recommended by the Elections Commissioner to him as a Presidential candidate has been rejected by the President.[/FONT][FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif] “I have not been given any security as a Presidential candidate. The security I have with me are those that I was given when I retired as Chief of Defence staff and no additional security personnel have been assigned to me,” General Fonseka told Daily Mirror Online. [/FONT][FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]The General claims that he is requesting only the mandatory security that is given to all Presidential candidates. “I am not asking for anything extra, just the security that I should receive as a Presidential candidate and other candidates are receiving as well. I need security for my campaign and for the rallies that I am expected to attend and organise,” he said. [/FONT][FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]According to Fonseka the security recommended by the Elections Commissioner has been halted by the President. “The Elections Commissioner recommended that I be given additional security to that which I was receiving now that I was a Presidential Candidate. However the President has said that no such security should be given,” he said. [/FONT][FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]When Daily Mirror online contacted the Presidents Office they were unaware of such a order by the President.[/FONT]<a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=72917" target="_blank">[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif]DM[/FONT]</a>[FONT=arial, helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]</blockquote>

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