"Before Anura became president, there was a Disaster Management Centre in Sri Lanka", reads a Sinhala-language Facebook post shared on November 28, 2025.
"But the Malima (compass) government deactivated the DMC immediately after coming to power," the post goes on to read, referring to the ruling coalition National People's Power, whose symbol is a compass. "The Malima government announced that the DMC is a white elephant, wasting public tax dollars."
The post also shares a graphic with text that largely repeats the false claim.
Other posts spreading on Facebook falsely claimed the disaster agency was dissolved with its functions transferred to the Ministry of Defence.
Sri Lanka's opposition has alleged President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's government had not taken timely precautionary measures against Cyclone Ditwah despite warnings from the meteorological department (archived link).
More than two million people in Sri Lanka -- nearly 10 percent of the population -- have been affected by the floods and landslides triggered by the worst storm to hit the island in two decades. At least 638 people were killed (archived link).
Comments suggest some users believe Dissanayake had genuinely ordered the DMC to be deactivated.
"A year has 12 months, and work is done in only one month. So it's said that they can't just pay for 11 months without work," a user wrote under one of the false posts. "That's what I have heard."
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