The Sri Lankan financial disaster is escalating through the minute with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa refusing to step down. He appointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe the appearing President after he fled to Male, Maldives, with his wife and two staffers on Wednesday, infuriating protesters further. Protesters have so a ways taken over the Presidential palace, PM’s office, PM’s house, and the nation broadcaster. Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa known as the government’s actions hence a ways “total anarchy”.
Singapore said on Thursday it had allowed Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to enter the city-state on a “personal visit” and that no asylum request had been made from him, Reuters reported. It comes a day after he fled the country in the face of public protests against his government’s mismanagement of the economy. A Saudi Airlines flight – SV 788 – carrying Rajapakse landed at Singapore Changi International Airport shortly after 7pm (local time).
