However, it is said that the State Minister does not have the
authority to remove the director who had been appointed by the President.
The director who has been appointed by the President can only be removed from his post by the Agriculture Minister, it is said.
However, based on the false complaints made by an officer who had been interdicted, the Director of the Hector Kobbekaduwa Agrarian Research Institute had been removed from his position without any investigation or calling for explanation and a new Director has been appointed to replace him.
It is reported that even the President is perturbed by this incident.
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