A thirteen-member committee has been appointed to oversee the measures assigned to Parliament under the National Anti-Corruption Action Plan 2025–2029, Speaker Jagath Wickramaratne told the House on Tuesday.
The committee is chaired by the Deputy Chairperson of Committees and was appointed following a decision taken by the Committee on Parliamentary Business at its meeting on 25 September 2026, the Daily Mirror reported at 10.55 a.m.
The members
Twelve MPs are named alongside the chair:
- Harshana Nanayakkara
- Sunil Watagala
- Kaushalya Ariyarathna
- J. C. Alawathuwala
- Anuradha Jayaratne
- Shanakiyan Rasamanickam
- Oshani Umanga
- Prageeth Madhuranga
- Chandima Hettiaratchi
- Darmapriya Wijesinghe
- Dewananda Suraweera
- M. Nizam Kariapper
Twelve named members plus the chair gives the thirteen of the Speaker’s announcement, so the published list is complete and internally consistent.
What the committee is for
The National Anti-Corruption Action Plan allocates commitments across institutions — the executive, the investigating commission, the courts and the legislature. This committee’s remit is confined to the portion assigned to Parliament, not to the plan as a whole, and it is an oversight body rather than an investigative one.
That distinction matters, because it separates this committee from the institutions that do the enforcement work. The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption is the operational body, and has been expanding its own capacity toward a target staff of 971 across twenty-three regional offices. The statutory framework has been separately contested: the Anti-Corruption (Amendment) Bill went to the Supreme Court in September, where the determination turned on a referendum requirement and a bail clause.
A parliamentary committee monitoring Parliament’s own deliverables is the third strand — the one measuring whether the legislature does what the plan says it will.
Not reported
The Daily Mirror’s filing does not name the Deputy Chairperson of Committees who chairs the body, which leaves the chair of a thirteen-member committee unidentified in the only published account. It does not say which measures under the action plan are assigned to Parliament, what the committee’s powers are, how often it will meet, whether it will report publicly, or when it will first sit.
It gives no party breakdown of the membership, and does not say why a committee appointed on a decision of 25 September was announced to the House nearly four weeks later.
This desk could not find a second verified newsroom reporting the appointment at the time of writing.
