The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is controlled by a group of drunken lowlifes of the SLFP-affiliated trade union, the United National Party (UNP) charged today.

“We saw this in photos yesterday,” UNP MP Harsha de Silva told reporters in Colombo. He stated that certain trade union activists had taken off their shirts and were spouting filth while one of them almost fell from the balcony.

A tense situation was reported near the Sapugaskanda oil refinery yesterday as several UNP MPs on a fact finding mission to the plant were denied entry by a group of employees.

He stated that intelligence units are now claiming that the UNP MPs were visiting the oil refinery to engage in acts of sabotage.

He stated that a Police Constable has submitted a report to court alleging that intelligence officers have received information that a group of UNP MPs are attempting to disturb the peace by illegally entering the oil refinery and creating a tense situation with the workers. “This is a nice story,” he said.

He accused intelligence units of completely distorting information while pointing out that the MPs traveled with media personnel and that they had no plans to create a disturbance and destroy public property

UNP Members of Parliament do not have to take permission from lowlifes in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party trade union to visit their places of employment, de Silva said.