The Joint Development Officers’ Center has released an audio tape of a telephone conversation involving Industries Minister Sunil Handunnetti.
The tape was made public during a media briefing concerning the police obstruction of an unemployed graduate protest at Polduwa Junction.
In the recording, a young woman questions the government’s program to provide jobs for graduates. Minister Handunnetti responds by stating that graduate employment can be considered only after he secures his own job.
The release of the audio tape has sparked criticism and raised questions about the government’s approach to addressing youth unemployment.
There are job opportunities the jobless graduates do not want to apply and get in. They want it given free.