The two leading parties has been locking horns for two days now, deliberating on whether to take a block vote for the names proposed for the cabinet or whether top vote for the three candidates separately. President Mohamed Nasheed submitted Mahmoud Razee for the post of civil aviation minister, former speaker of parliament Mohamed Shihab for home minister and prominent lawyer Husnu Suood for attorney general.
Members of the Parliament have still not come to an agreement on whether to vote on all three together or separately. Even when President Nasheed’s initial cabinet was approved by the Parliament on a block vote, I remained an opponent of the block vote and I still remain that way.
Though an MDP member, I cannot blindly agree with all the stands taken by the party. I have to say that one cannot buy a sack of potatoes if five of the 50 potatoes are rotten. When you recruit 10 staff for a company you do not interview and recruit them as a block. You interview the 10 people separately and you recruit them separately.
I believe that Gayyoom and his party could well have tricks up their sleeve, but that is no excuse to do things in undemocratic ways.
Yes, I would say that it would be an undemocratic thing to take a block vote when approving members for the cabinet. This one can be good and this one can be ok and that one could be fine and the other one could be inappropriate! One just can’t decide on this as a whole. I think it’s a ridiculous debate which is going on at the Parliament just now. Is this what we are paying them millions for? To engage in this sort of childish banter?
Mr. Bushry. I call this the dramas of Majlis, Yes it could be ridiculous and childish, yet its the reality we'd see in this majlis. In anyhow your idea that the block vote is wrong will be acceptable by everyone who believes and understand democracy.
ReplyDeletevery balanced view. a good start for future.
ReplyDeleteThe best post I have ever seen from you. I guess this is a good start for you. I support most of your ideas but the way you present them is somewhat baised at times.
ReplyDeleteKeep up the good work!
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ReplyDeleteeverything is good as long as it appears good for MDP.
And now that MDP has got what they wanted via individual voting - that type of voting will be sacred.And these thugs would still continue to lecture us about democracy and transparency
Ahdhdey, ekkala bushry hama jehey vaahaka dhakkan feshytha, hama ehen bunaa irah MDP membarun ves aan OK vaki vakin ney govaalaifi. gadha ingey Bushy. Kalo beybe ah dhemi ganevunee hama kiriyaa dho, adhi dhen eba halhey layennu, 41 membarun thimanna men kolhah kahaalaa reedhoo tie alhuvaanamey, bala nuvaane ekameh,
ReplyDeletee'othee kohfa ehnu. golhaa MPs heekuree dho beynun ehcheh hadhaaleveyney? ehaa avahah majority gellunee?? pakaaaaaaaaas! eyruves bunin thee dhedhuvahuge kamekey! varah hifaalaafa thibi vakin vote nagan. naseebehnu ehen negikan. mihaaru dhen ehcheh visneynethaa! mihaaruves 41 ethibee nearly hama vefa kalo. ehen noon nama golha thah evaru kureema independent MPs MDP aa ehkolhah nulaane vote eh dho. dhen lalalaaaa.
ReplyDeletebushry, who gives a rat's ass about what you think?
ReplyDeleteYameen is the most corrupt bastard amongst all the Former Regime’s top officials.
ReplyDeleteYameen has accumulated an incredible amount of wealth that most of us cannot even imagine is possible. I can assure you that he is richer (in cash) than Burumaa Qasim or Champa Afeef. He has wealth hidden away in Swiss bank accounts and in shares of various international companies.
How did he obtain all this money? Very Simple. Here are the most important sources of his illegal wealth.
1. Most of the money came from Maldives National Oil Company. When Yameen was incharge of STO and the Trade Ministry, he created MNOC to use as a vehicle to embezzle money through oil trading. As w know Maldives doesn’t produce oil nor do we refine oil. However, MNOC was set up as a subsidiary company of STO which then obtained a huge amount of credit from the bank in the form of a revolving LC against a sovereign guarantee which was to be used to buy oil from Malaysia and other oil producing countries. On paper the LC was necessary to buy the oil for STO on credit.
Basically, Yameen used the same tactic practised by Satoh and Ilyas to embezzle FPID in the export of fish. BY playing with the cost prices of MNOC Yameen made an incredible amount of millions on every litre of oil imported into Maldives.
Not only that. A large amount of oil stock purchased by MNOC which were supposedly destined for Maldives were sold in the international market and kickbacks taken by Yameen. And in most cases the actual cost price and selling prices were manipulated to pocket the difference.
The main person who helped Yameen carry out these activities is Muneez stationed in STO Singapore. I dare say, that a large amount of this money also went to Maumoon.
So in short, Yameen made most of his money through illegal oil trading using a revolving LC of Maldives national Oil Company.
Can anyone of you take calculator and work out some estimates using the total oil imported to this country through STO in the last 15 years? Just imagine how much the bastard would have made even if he took 10 cents a litre!!!!
2. Yameen also made millions from Dhoneveli Beach Resort and Olhuveli Beach Resort. Both these resorts were bought by Jabir and Sun Travel Siyam with STO’s money. The money needed to buy these resorts were given out from STO against dated US dollar cheques. The excusive was that the money was paid out to buy dollars for STO.
Using the money Jabir and Siyam bought the islands and repaid the money after obtaining loans from the bank through mortgage of the very same resorts after buying them. Yameen thus became a share holder of both islands.
Later Yameen convinced Jabir to sell Dhonveli and cashed in his shares. Likewise, it is said that Yameen sold his shares of Olhuveli to Siyam and cashed in his stock.
3. Yameen also holds a large amount of shares in STO which he bought using STO money.
4. Yameen also made millions from STO’s Sri Lankan Tea Plantation deal.
5. Yameen made millions from Fuel Supplies Company. As a hidden share holder he made a lot of money from this deal.
6. Yameen made millions through his shares in the Cement manufacturing venture of STO where he again gave the capital for this subsidiary company from STO when in fact it was a supposed to be Lafarge who was to bring in the capital. Yameen remains a share holder.
These are the main sources. So I would urge the Special Presidential Commission to investigate all these areas and bring Yameen to justice. All the evidence is well hidden by Yameen who is as we all know a very “smart crook”! But he is not as clever as he thinks and the evidences against him can be found quite easily. In today’s world it is not too difficult to track his illegal wealth which we must bring back into the Maldivian Government’s Treasury as soon as possible.
P.s. Some details have been deliberately omitted as we do not want Yameen to know how much we actually know about his dealings!
Sincerely
A Yameen Investigator
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