Sunday 5 February 2012

Former President HE Maumoon’s legacy and contributions lives on this Independence Day and it is time we believe in those who do things for us not the one who attempts to entice us through repeated empty promises.

Presidents in order to win popularity and acceptance will promise anything, but there are always yardsticks that citizens use to know if they can be trusted. This is if not always, mostly what they do for the betterment of the people and their communities. The 45th Independence came to Maldives and on the day we saw the new President of Maldives who has been the President for the past two years still unable to do anything for the people opening buildings, and services established by Former President HE Maumoon and his government.
The Museum, the sky-scrappers including the MNDP buildings not one but two, and most of all the new Velaanaage Building that will accommodate all government offices under one roof, were all inaugurated by the new President Mohamed Nasheed, but all the work and services provided by the Former Government of HE Maumoon.
If you want something you have to give something not verbally and in repeated writings, but in action. The current government of President Nasheed has not so far given anything to the people and their communities. Since the new government got itself established it has been two years and those two years are marked by political unrest created by the President and his supporters to gain more powers in the Judiciary and most of all the Parliament. When it comes to giving, instead of giving and rewarding back to the people as promised with Flats, sewerage systems, airports and harbours, what we have seen is salary reductions of thousands of civil servants, and thousands of redundancies were made bringing suffering to many families. Similarly while nothing has being done on to deliver on the pledges on infra structure developments to communities such projects initiated by Former Government were all scrapped sighting budget deficiencies.
Two years on, a President fooling around with the people after inaugurating the services and infrastructures provided by the Former President went through a conscious awakening and once again to obtain his post for a further term and sustain his power, he renewed his promises on giving sewerage systems, harbours, airports, roads and vice versa. The Maldivian people have to bear in their minds that these Promises renewed cunningly lacked commitment in the past and will lack commitment in both the present and the future. These new promises are an attempt to gain honour to a failing government and the President himself, because those whom they accuse of corruption, precisely the Former Government and their commitment and evidence that keeps re-surfacing even after two years, will lead to the downfall of the new President in this precarious time when he is not only failing to give to the people but declared himself the commander in Chief, Head of Military going out of Constitutional powers to commit increasing number of dictatorial acts.
The man like Prince from Machiavelli stated, the worst fear of a ruler is abandonment and the President and MDP is facing abandonment and rejection by the Maldives people whom they have failed big time, reversely acting on all the promises they made to secure power. That is the reality.
We have to be wise and not make the mistake of believing in the promises the President and his MDP group make over and over again. We urge to the Maldives people not to fall for the trap again. A President who has been hostile and adverse to the people without doing anything for the people but doing everything for his group, making the political appointments for any President in history and paying them salaries at the behest of the sufferings of the common people is the principality of the MDP and President Nasheed. We strongly advice the people that he will not change and we the common people should not waste any more years on hoping that he will fulfil the renewed Promises and will act in the good of the common people and their communities.
From the day he came to power he has been signing the contracts of building airports, sewerage systems, drawing charts of how roads and water systems will be established in the 200 or so inhabited islands. This Independence Day after opening the buildings and services provided by the Former Government of President Maumoon; the very next day he put up a show on national broadcasting channels of signing agreements with a US farm for infra structure developments, in which surprisingly the two people that appeared to sign the agreement from the namely US firm were two Indians by origin. Similarly he made a show of signing agreements with a couple of Koreans to build flats. What we have to remember is these kind of delusional activities are nothing new. We should remember how to win the Thimarafushi vote for the MDP candidate Musthafa in the Parliamentary election; how they signed an agreement to build an airport and put up a show of a signing ceremony with a man who was a tourist and an imposter used in the name of a company that does not even exist.
We have to save ourselves front these kind of scams. The worst we can do is to keep on falling for the traps of this cunning President and his henchmen who lacks an ounce of honest bone in their bodies.
It is time we think of ourselves and our communities and distance from the dishonesty of President Nasheed and the MDP. It should be our mission that we save ourselves from the dishonesty and lies that prevail in the government of President Nasheed. Having the power we have to decide on who our leaders should be, and not get ourselves get hoodwinked in the wrong hands, as we are paying a hefty price for doing so in the 2008 Presidential Election by bringing a man like Nasheed and a group like MDP to power. They have not brought anything but economic and social demise,high inflation, misery, deprivation, took away our Public services, jobs, brought civil war, rise in violent crimes, curtailed freedom and liberty etc. This is the reality of Nasheed and MDP. Scandal after scandal of the President and his employed political appointees is what we have to bear.
It is time we never believe in the group MDP and the President, no matter how enticing the promises are. Please save Maldives our country and save yourselves by trusting in those who had done things for us not the one who try to entice us with repeated empty promises.

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