He was responding to questions raised by journalists upon an inspection visit to the site presently under construction.
The jogging track was demolished with the hope of making it a better job, and the cost was not borne by the state, but by the wealthy, he claimed.
Amaratunga went onto say that it was not him who had demolished the jogging track, adding that he had no time to do such things.
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