Singapore didn’t become Singapore because someone built a marina
it became Singapore because of rule of law, clean institutions and regulation that actually works
but sure, one more luxury island will do it 🏝️ #maldives
Do you admit to your wrongs? In 2023, you backed Nasheed and aligned yourself with his faction. You even spoke against Ibu in the Majlis. But when Ibu offered you a deal, you switched sides. You distributed free land to your loyal supporters. How you re-elected!
MDP = PNC
Some say 70% of those who got flats or land lease them out. That may be true, but numbers don’t tell the full story. Not everyone who got a flat is from Malé City. This city was built by both Malé and island people, all trying to survive the same grind.
Average civil servants earn between 5,000 and 10,000 a month. They struggle to pay rent, feed their children, and cover medical bills as the cost of living keeps rising. Some rent out a room just to manage expenses, while others remain in cramped concrete cells barely 8 by 10 feet because that’s all they can afford.
Reports say RF 700 million remains unpaid from 8,000 flats. Yet MPs like Shujau, Falah, and Thoriq received land at 67% discounts. One deal alone cost taxpayers 13.5 million. These MPs earn over RF 90,000 a month while civil servants make a fraction of that.
So let’s not pretend the problem is the mother renting out a room to pay for her child’s education. The problem is a political class that feeds on privilege while preaching sacrifice, rewarding those who exploit the system they created.
Malé City’s working people are the backbone of this nation. They run the hospitals, the schools, the offices, and the markets. They keep this country moving while being blamed for unpaid flats. They carry the nation’s debt while others pocket the taxpayers money.
The system isn’t broken by the people who got these flats. It’s broken by those who designed it to serve themselves.
This is a little later on but less than 50 years ago we were shitting on beaches because toilets didn't exist. Shall we try that too?
How about voting rights for women? Let's revoke that.
Or why not reintroduce slavery system?
I'd like to think we humans are constantly evolving our civilisation and we need to keep shedding concepts that hold no merit.
for the record, this was december of 2023.
“kanthah thah kuran beynunvaa meehaku hoadhaane 1000 goiy kanthah thah kuraaneves, alhuganduge mizaajakee abadhuves kameh kureven othihyaa kureveyne 1000 goiy hoadhaigen ekan kurun”
almost two years, only thing achieved so far is cleaning out the storm drains (which, by the way, is in council’s mandate). so barely remarkable, what happened to the other pledges?
MDP lost its originality after its first govt.
If they had stayed true to their principles, they would have:
Never allowed Feb 7 culprits to join
Changed the JSC composition
Investigated MMPRC scandal
Avoided billion-rufiyaa settlements
Reformed Binveriyaa & Flat schemes
If Addu City is dismantled, it won’t just lose a council it will lose its position, influence, and voice.
Fuvahmulah will rise as the new southern center, while Addu becomes just another atoll. Hithadhoo may progress, but Addu’s collective strength will fade.
Don’t be fools.
Ruled by one man for 30 years.
No accountability. No transparency.
Blind obedience was rewarded,
Fear was law.
No justice.
No free media.
A rubber stamping parliament.
Forced to beg for small handouts from the palace.
State funds used by cronies to build their lives and educate their kids, who came back to guaranteed executive level jobs.
No one allowed to contest in presidential elections. In fact no free and fair elections.
Critics and journalists tortured and jailed for life.
Unaccounted deaths in jail, even blatant shooting on one occasion.
Corruption flourished, cronies got rich, allies were untouchable.
Ordinary people fighting to just survive, on scraps from 'heyofulhukan', with no protection offered by either courts or any independent institutions.
And we should want to go back to that? What kind of delusional selective memory and glorifying is this?