Inviting your own citizens, repeatedly cancelling, then ghosting them? Disrespectful and embarrassing. But First Lady had enough time for a fashion magazine.
@MMuizzu@sajidhaamohamed
Muthalib: Eagle Hills approached us with the proposal.
Alabbar: When I first got the message that they [Maldives] were interested in talking to us about a special project, I jumped.
But don’t be alarmed. This is hardly the first contradiction. Even the most basic detail, the project's investment value, has kept changing, with conflicting figures coming from different ministers and Alabbar himself.
And you can expect more contradictions, shifting narratives and new justifications in the coming months.
Why? Because this was never a properly planned development project. As I explained in my first article, this appears to have been a hastily arranged deal that, for reasons still unclear, those involved seem determined to push through.
Perhaps those reasons have something to do with what Alabbar himself claimed to have given to “Brother Abdulla” several times.
And as the public continues to question the deal, expect Brother Abdulla to keep coming up with new explanations, revised figures and fresh justifications.
When a project is properly planned, the facts speak for themselves. When a deal is rushed, the story keeps changing.
@muththo
This arsehole called Sajidha to complain about that troubled man. Sajidha then told him a hunger strike outside the police station would give great publicity to both Saeed and the gov. Saeed has lost public trust and credibility from the hundreds of lies he tells weekly on behalf of BML. Just like paedophile Zam Zam Farish uses the Eagle Hills scandal to polish his paedophile image, Saeed used that troubled man’s issue and the hunger strike to polish his own image, on Sajidha’s advice (and then thanked the gov too when he ended the fake hunger strike). Never trust these PNC people. They have no honesty. They think people are dumb and hold ordinary people in very low regard. Fuck off, Saeed. I also asked a police source to verify your claim of police arresting that man 30 times and his response was “bullshit”.
The government is onboard. Opposition leader @MohamedNasheed is onboard. Many businesses tycoons are onboard. There appears to be enough money to bring much of the media and many influencers onboard.
I doubt anyone behind the Eagle Hills deal expected any significant public resistance.
If memory serves me right, this is the first time in our multiparty democracy that a project backed by both the government and a leading opposition figure has faced such significant public resistance.
And this tells a story far bigger than the Rasmale deal. It tells us that Maldivian society is changing. More and more people are refusing to be trapped between the “evil” and the “lesser evil.”
People are beginning to think independently, question both major political parties, and form opinions beyond partisan loyalties.
Perhaps the biggest story here isn't the resistance to Eagle Hills. It's the political awakening of a generation that neither party can take for granted anymore.
Give it time. Right now people are consuming info, processing it. #IndiaOut and #GMROut protests also didn’t start within a week or two. But when it did, both presidents were out within 12 months. #EagleHillsOut will be the key election pledge the major opposition party will have to make and 2028 winner will be decided by that. #EagleHillsOut will be the main deciding factor.
Muttalib @muththo,
You took Alabbar to Ucchu to convince him about the Eagles Project. During the meeting, Ucchu, in his patriotic tone, requested Alabbar to pay money towards the acquisition cost of Rasmale, coz of shortage of dollars in the country.
Alabbar replied that he had already given several amounts to his brother, Abdulla, @muththo saying, “I have given a lot to my brother Abdulla.”
So, Abdulla, where the hell did that money go? How much was paid, when was it paid, and where did it end up?
Muttalib, what exactly were you doing in Dubai from April 30 to May 2? Why did you return to Dubai again in May, and why did you subsequently travel to Singapore? What was the purpose of these trips and whom did you meet?
Which company sponsored your trip to Beijing from June 21 to June 27? What was the purpose of that trip, and what business was discussed?
And what exactly were you doing on your recent trip to the Red Sea? Whom did you meet, and what was discussed?
We know. I know. And the questions will not go away.