Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith today (02) stated that he is ready to take legal actions regarding the damage caused to the fishing community due to the sinking of the Express Pearl.
“Now our fishing community has been severely damaged due to this ship. The Minister in charge of Ports and his board have not given us a correct answer in this regard. Several days later, we saw pictures in the newspapers that the ship was on fire when arrived. Nothing was done at that time. ‘Take this ship to the deep sea;’ ‘Reject this ship;’ Now that all the beaches have been destroyed and all the fish resources have been destroyed, they are coming to negotiate and slide away. All the oil in that ship will leak then the entire beach and the jobs will be lost to our fishing community. We cannot allow that. Therefore, we now call on the fishermen’s organizations to take legal actions against this company. I hope to lead on that. We cannot allow fake games to be played in this country. There is not even enough money to buy a vaccine against this Covid. We have fallen into a state of begging. I suggest you try as hard as you can to keep this ship from sinking. Otherwise, the ship’s fuel must be completely removed, ”the cardinal added.
