A large protest held against the MDP regime’s decision to sell alcohol in the inhabited islands of Maldives

The day the MDP regime announced their decision to allow sale of alcohol in the inhabited islands of Maldives, that night newspapers headlined that its Parliamentary group Leader Reeko Moosa Manik’s car was ceased with a large amount of alcohol.
The inhabited islands with the government policy of banning and criminalising the sale and usage of alcohol in the islands where people live has worked very well. But the MDP and President Nasheed’s decision to lift the ban means the alcohol that is confined to the Tourist resort islands will be available to the islanders with most population of the islands just a couple of hundred.
The Islamic Ministry, and even the President’s own appointed Islamic Advisor to himself is addressing the protestors. People holding banners calling the government to immediately reverse their decision has gathered in their thousands.
Maldives and its small island communities are trying to cope with an endemic level of addiction to narcotic drugs. Widely used everywhere in the islands are most dangerous of drugs found in the world including heroine and cheap versions of it. It is estimated that at least one third or more of the Maldives working age population are drug addicts.
Social problems such as gang warfare, violence, crime most times resulting in murder has become a daily occurrence. Therefore this attempt to allow alcohol added to the string of selfish dictatorial decision is the most irresponsible thing this government and Mohamed Nasheed can do. It indicates how little they care about the people and their well being.
Just so that his friends and he can drink he is lifting the age old alcohol ban that has protected our communities for years and if upheld for many more years to come. Depriving the people of employment, disregarding the murders, crimes, drug addiction that has claimed whole societies completely ignored, it is no surprise Nasheed is more concerned about himself and his friends from the other side’s desire to openly drink as they please.
Maldivian people need to act and do so fast. The way this government is reckoning with the people, breaking every rule in the book, every pillar of our religion and culture means it is SOS. One solution. Bring the regime down immediately.
This alcohol tragedy is the last straw. We are calling the people to keep on holding unprecedented amounts of demonstration everywhere and make the MDP and Nasheed the mistake we should never have made history.