Sri Lanka, Sept. 17 -- A YouTuber has submitted an appeal to the Designated Officer at the Presidential Secretariat against the decision of the Information Officer to reject the information he had requested under the Right to Information (RTI) Act, relating to the expenditures incurred for domestic travel and accommodation by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during the past 12 months.

In his appeal, YouTuber Janith Premaratne urged the authorities to reconsider and release the information regarding the President's domestic travel and accommodation expenses.

The appellant stated that his request is strictly limited to financial expenditure data such as total costs, aggregated amounts, and trip/location breakdowns which do not reveal op...