(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – UPDATE: Eastern Province Governor Austin Fernando is to be appointed as the new President’s Secretary. His new appointment came following resignation of Mr. P. B. Abeykoon who resigned from his post on Friday (30) citing personal grounds.
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(UDHAYAM, COLOMBO) – Secretary to the President P. B. Abeykoon has reportedly tendered his resignation from the post on personal grounds on Friday (30).
Mr. Abeykoon joined the Sri Lanka Administrative Service in 1982 and started his career as an Assistant Government Agent, at Gomarankadawela (Trincomalee District). Then he moved to the Department of Immigration and Emigration and worked as an Assistant Controller and later Deputy Controller. Subsequently he was appointed as the Deputy Director, Combined Services Department, Ministry of Public Administration and Home Affairs where he served till 2000.
From 2004 to 2005 he functioned as the Commissioner General, Department of Registration of Persons, Colombo and from 2005 to 2010 as the Controller General, Department of Immigration and Emigration.
