Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Dictator Nasheed and MDP’s Parliamentary group Leader to continue with their disruption of the Parliament sittings in what the President and friends refer as the Chess Game of Politics they are playing.

Posted by haumaldives on August 9, 2010


The Maldives Parliament meetings for months have been obstructed by the ruling party MP’s in the Parliament headed by a previous film star who lacks basic education and is know for his violent prone behaviours. The MP’s belonging to the President; to get what they want scream abuse and engage in violence in the Parliament meetings while outside they quickly mobilise their thug force to create chaos and destruction. They are always behind every disruption of the past, however gives false reports to the international media blaming the opposition MP’s for not making enough progress. Although initially the opposition led Parliament let whatever the President want pass through, it just became too much. Since the opposition MP’s and the independent MP’s rejected and refused to get cornered by their fear mongering tactics, disrupting the Parliament and walk outs became the ultimate methods used by Reeko Moosa Manik and his gang of MDP MP’s..
Yesterday this Reeko Moosa, the man appointed by the ruling MDP party to head the Parliament yet again announced his intention to further disrupt all future sittings unless the Parliament endorse the name of the top crony sent by the President who he wants to appoint as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Earlier today the President’s attempt to establish the Supreme Court by decree failed when the four candidates he appointed refused to take the job offer; all of them they stating that they do not want to be a part of such an unconstitutional vendetta. The Prosecutor General’s bid to obtain keys to the Supreme Court from the Military, although was allowed by the Court, the Military refused to hand over the keys. The Attorney General also resigned earlier today in a bid to prevent the case getting send to the Courts, however as his resignation came after the matter went to Court the Court served a ruling ordering the despotic Military Head Moosa Ali Jaleel to hand over the keys immediately. This of course fell on the deaf ears of the Dictator’s nepotist patrimonial gangs, who see themselves above the law.
Disruptions, games of resignation and several days after re-appointments of those that resign are games played by the man we call the President of Maldives. Many of his activists belonging to the ruling party refer to their running of the country as a Chess Game played by themselves and the President.
Despite of international appeals, the game of chess perpetrated by the President and his appointees continue, without any concern whatsoever to the economic and social suffering of the people.
The Political Chess Game that the President and his friends say that they are playing is causing economic losses to the people, the cost of suffering is exacerbated by, high inflation, job cuts, salary reductions and other forms of deprivations caused by the new government. The loss of rule of law with the Parliament and the Judiciary disabled by the President and his cronies wayward fame of Chess means Maldives at the moment is a scene of anarchy and civil war where the government actually encourages their sponsored thugs to use violence against perceived non-supporters and opposition leaders. It emerged that nearly two million was spent by the government to get the violent criminals the President released to form gangs and engage in violence and creating of chaos in the streets, regardless of the deaths they caused and the cost of other human sufferings.
The monthly salaries of all these structures including the Parliament, the Judiciary and the Executive cause the Maldivian people billions of Ruffia, money the country and we don’t have, however the President and his followers are pre-occupied with playing a game of chess with the governance and rule of the country, with their parliament Head Reeko Moosa Manik vowing more disruption of the future sittings of the Parliament.
That is why we say that it is time we get rid of this President whose disruption of the country, perpetrated by himself, executed by himself disabled our lives for months now. We voted these people to deliver freedom, social and economic justice to our people and communities, to get on with the job, not to play a chess game against their political opponents while holding the country, the communities and the people hostage.
This unaccountable government that is up to no good is a failure and we have to protect ourselves from this thug group MDP and their despot Nasheed, who like a music conductor is harmonising every movement of disruptions and chaos. This lowly conduct of the Maldives President is an embarrassment on all of us and we should be ashamed of ourselves to let this man make such a laughing-stock of us. He is behaving as if we are deaf, dumb, blind. Where is our dignity? How could we allow this man treat us this low and simply silently watch all this? It is time we the people rise against this man and get rid of him, speak out now, unmask him for what he is and remove him from power.

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Monday, August 9, 2010

Supreme Court under armed forces control, parliament deadlock continues


| DATE: 2010-08-09



Administrative employees of Supreme Court stand outside the court Monday morning. HAVEERU PHOTO/NASRULLA SALIH

MALE, August 9, 2010 (HNS) – Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) blocked Supreme Court judges from entering the courthouse Monday morning a day after Civil Court ruled interim Supreme Court remains until the establishment of a permanent Supreme Court by the parliament.

On Sunday Civil Court ordered Defence Ministry to release Supreme Court keys withheld Saturday by the armed forces.

MNDF released the keys to a Supreme Court administrator on the court’s second attempt to retrieve them Monday morning instructing the official to carry out administrative work only.

Two Supreme Court judges including Ahmed Faiz nominated as Chief Justice by President Mohamed Nasheed were stopped at the gate by MNDF guards.

Press Secretary Mohamed Zuhair later told Haveeru the government’s interpretation of the Civil Court ruling allowed the continuation of Supreme Court’s administrative functioning only and not its interim bench.

The government continues to follow advice given by resigned Attorney General (AG) Husnu Suood, Zuhair said.

Before his resignation Sunday morning “accepting blame for the constitutional void created by lack of interim period legislations” Suood said Supreme Court could only function with new judges – an argument contended by several legal experts who interpret the Civil Court ruling as declaring the continuation of the Supreme Court bench and not “its four walls.”

A major legal row sparked over the continuation of Supreme Court, some independent commissions and diplomats when parliament failed to legislate their continuation by the end of the constitutional interim period at midnight Saturday.

The ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) and Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP)-led opposition which controls parliament majority were at loggerheads over setting the agenda order for a sitting eventually called off after three postponements.

“Legal advice given by the former Attorney General remains. The government interprets [the Civil Court ruling] as continuation of the administrative functioning of the court only, to ensure delivery of the people’s constitutional rights,” Zuhair said.

Meanwhile, the President’s Office arranged an oath taking ceremony Monday morning, Haveeru understand, to appoint Toursim Minister Ahmed Ali Sawad as the new AG.

But the ceremony was cancelled, Haveeru learnt, when President Nasheed received legal advice that it could not proceed without appointing new judges to the Supreme Court.

According to the constitution cabinet members shall take their oath of office before the Chief Justice or a judge appointed by the Chief Justice.

Interim Chief Justice Abdulla Saeed described the government’s move Monday as turning Supreme Court into a military court.

“Supreme Court can only be opened and closed on armed forces orders. The court’s functions are also directed by them. So I believe that the Supreme Court has been turned into a military court,” Saeed said.

Meanwhile, all four members of the panel decreed by President Nasheed to administer the functioning of Supreme Court and Department of Judicial Administration resigned less than 24 hours after they were appointed at midnight Saturday.

Muthasim Adnan, the last appointee to withdraw his name, wrote to President Nasheed it was not a responsibility he could perform “within the boundaries of the constitution now in place.”

On Sunday morning, President Nasheed and parliament Speaker Abdulla Shahid discussed ways of expediting parliament’s work, but MPs failed to convene Monday.

Speaker Shahid told journalists Sunday he hoped to hold a sitting Tuesday if talks between opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) and ruling Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) do not produce an outcome before Monday.

“I hope that we would be able to find a solution for [Monday’s] sitting. But considering the present circumstances, I do not think [Monday’s] sitting can be held. No party wishes to proceed with the sitting if the agenda is not in the way they want it,” he said


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Outcry over erosion of rule of law in Maldives

Thursday 29 July 2010 by Jonathan Rayner
 
A former Maldives attorney general has called on the Law Society to lead a mission to the country to assess the erosion of the rule of law, as judges are assaulted, courts suspended, and citizens’ rights ‘crushed under foot’, he claimed. Dr Hassan Saeed told the Society last week that elected president Mohamed Nasheed, a former political prisoner once dubbed the Maldives’ ‘Nelson Mandela’, was dismantling the 2008 constitution and had set up his own ‘public courts’ to replace independent courts.
Saeed said citizens’ rights were being ‘crushed under foot’ and called on the Law Society to lead an independent assessment of the situation. Society president Linda Lee urged the Maldives authorities to ‘uphold and protect key constitutional principles’.
A spokesman for the Maldives’ London High Commission denied the allegations and said the 2008 constitution protected citizens’ rights.

Outcry over erosion of rule of law in Maldives