President elect Mohamed Nasheed takes over the presidency on November 11 to become our 4th President. He has may pressing problems that require immediate attention such as housing of the cramped Male', drug addiction among youth and providing justice to the many citizens who been deprived their rights and the dignity of life for the last 30 years by the Maumoon regime.
Surely the least of the president-elect Nasheed's problems should be to worry about security and other privileges to the out going President Gayoom even until the bill submitted to the parliament is passed.
President Gayoom has said that former president Ibrahim Nasir did a smooth handover 30 years back. We have the precedent of how Ibrahim Nasir was treated by the Maumoon regime after such a peaceful transition. Thus, president-elect Nasheed has his transition job cut out for him.
President Gayoom speaking on Henyabo variety show, called on the people to continue in the righteous path of Islam and to protect the sovereignty of the Maldives. We don't need President Gayoom or any of his evil cronies to lecture the Maldivian people about Islamic values for while the ordinary Maldivians remained true to Islamic values the Gayoom cronies plundered the wealth of the Maldivian nation for their personal gains against all Islamic values.
Immediately after inauguration, President Nasheed should lead the nation to clean up its checkered political history of murder, violence and root out endemic corruption in all sectors of the society.
A report on Minivan News by Olivia Lang and Shauna Aminath reflects the apalling state of our social affairs in a country seen by the west as a haven for the rich tourists.
"Just over two months ago, Shareefa Abdul Kareem’s 14-year old daughter was grabbed by a group of six men when she was walking home on her small, sleepy island in Noonu atoll.
Dragging her to an isolated beach, four of the men violently raped her, to the extent where she needed hospital treatment for three days.
Despite confessing their actions to police, five of the men remain free on the island, and have threatened the girl – who remains in her house for safety – they will carry out another attack.
As fellow islanders remain silent, Shareefa, 50, talks to Minivan News about how she copes with the trauma – and, as a mother of five, how helpless she feels. "
President-elect Nasheed should shift his focus to redress these social problems and seek to provide justice to those who have suffered under this evil dictatorship for so long.
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