Mr.President

This is an entry I wrote on the 6th Jan but never got to finish... I will write another entry on the gathering of MDP recently..

Adduvas news published the account details of loans given to high ranking government officials including ministers, high ranking police and military personals, top level judicial and religious leaders, by the presidents office from various social funds. I see nothing wrong with someone applying for a loan, which each and every individual of the Maldives have a right to do. However the problem lies in giving and selecting individuals. Why should ministers take loans to build mansions while majority of the society live below UN poverty line? This is only the tip of the iceberg, and the president’s office is scrabbling to get their PR in high gear, and have released a statement saying the need for protecting individual’s privacy. Well Mr. President, how about we protect the individuals privacy by not broadcasting drug addicts names before they are prosecuted, why not protect the privacy of individuals who are living with HIV in Maldives, why not protect the privacy of masses when your police force barges in without warrants, why not protect the privacy of masses when your secret service listen to our phone conversations, why not protect the privacy of citizens when you snoop on individuals emails; yet you advocate a news paper to uphold privacy of individuals on a loans given from public funds. Dear president, these are public funds, and the public has all the right to know how much of their money has been paid and by who. It is not like this newspaper published someone’s daily account history but rather what should have been public knowledge in the first place. Mr. president, could you please tell me how these people walk on our streets without paying back our money while your forces run after ordinary citizens, including students with outstanding students loans. Oh yes.. the first, second and third education project. A loan given by the World Bank for higher education of Maldivian students. Under the scheme your government required each student to pay back 50% of the loan in 5 years. Yet your ministers are living in mansions with millions in debt and counting. Your friends have failed to pay bed tax from resorts yet you fail to do anything. Your partners are importing hundreds of items for their business without paying there due import duty. Mr. President, your popularity has waned and no matter what you do, there is no way of winning back the heart and mind of the people. Your generation is gone, and I dream that it will be better for our children.. we are the lost generation. Mr. President, I don’t know if it just you are the people around you that’s deceiving you of the sentiments of the population. No sir, I am not aligned with any political party no I really care about the parties. However I can assure you that your time is up and you are 15 years late in moving on. The legacy you planned to build was not destroyed by MDP or any other political group, rather by you and the greedy thugs around you. Mr. President, do you see the plight of the outer islanders. What you need to give them is strong policies that will have a long lasting effect on the community. Policies that would make them self-sustaining create jobs make them producers. Most of your ministers are arrogant and selfish; whose children are studying all over the world while the children of the commoner is trying having their ends meet. Mr. President, when did you stop caring for the masses? Look at the resort owners, what have they done to the people of this country. When are you going to truly nationalize these resorts and distribute their income equally? You started with a socialist government, with empty promises. When you knew you cant fulfill them you have switched to a capitalist model, in order to please the rich. Mr. President, we are not dumb fools, you would have been thrown away if it was not for your security force who touchier and kill innocent people...Mr.president, how do you even sleep at night while inflicting so much pain to the very ordinary people of this small nation. The time of pretending that you are unaware of these wrong doings are over.. you know every little detail of what goes in this country. you robbed and shared the loot with your fellow friends. Mr. President, are you to tell me that you are unaware when the police shot and killed our fellow prisoners. No Mr. President.. You knew and you gave the command to shoot. In this small country no police personal would ever pull a trigger without your command. You are an evil dictator hiding behind a mask of innocence. You use religion as a facade to propagate your sins. Yes! You are cunning and intelligent. unlike our previous rulers you shared the booty with your close associates in order to use them as pillars to hold you up there. Mr. President, I will not shed a single teardrop on the day you leave and the streets of this country will be filled with jubilation and celebrations.