27.1.2008

A senior female official of the Health Ministry is pressurizing Medawachchiya police to release the ‘high protein' food that was apprehended last evening while being transported to Killinochchi in a container vehicle belonging to World Food Programme of the UNO. 

According to our sources this female official of the Health Ministry has telephoned the OIC of Medawachchiya Police regarding the consignment of ‘high protein' food and has demanded that the container be released immediately claiming that it is a consignment of food belonging to Health Ministry.

However, the police have not taken any measures to release the container. The food that the WFP had been transporting to Killinochchi is a kind of ‘high protein' biscuits of the ‘PB 100 compact Fera Pheutical' type.

The percentage of the contents of a biscuit is:

These biscuits are usually used by the Deep Penetration Unit of the Army and the STF. According to investigations that have been carried out it has been revealed that two more containers of the same  food stuff were to be sent to Killinochchi.