Hiriga (Haveeru Online 18th October 2007) is absolutely right about Vilivaru and Biyadhoo. You and I didn’t go to Lincoln’s Inn. But we also know that our government has absolutely no legal basis for deciding to compensate Yacht Tours Maldives (no ill-will intended to the company or its owners) simply because the government’s team in its report concluded the company ‘had an opportunity to win the bid’. Hiriga has done a marvelous job with presenting his arguments on the case very succinctly. So, I’m not doing that.
If ‘opportunity to win the bid’ really is a basis for a sovereign government to compensate one of the richest companies in its country then I can’t think of anything more outlandish than that. To add to the pain is also the fact that this decision comes at a time when the government is stretched to the limit in the management of its public finances. You might say that I'm exaggerating if I say that our central bank and Finance ministry are bordering on bankruptcy but please see MMA’s monthly stats. So, this decision defies all logic, reason, moral and ethical standards.
Sigh!! I’m not running our government. So, I obviously can’t do anything about it. But I wish instead of compensating Yacht Tours, our government had decided to compensate:
If ‘opportunity to win the bid’ really is a basis for a sovereign government to compensate one of the richest companies in its country then I can’t think of anything more outlandish than that. To add to the pain is also the fact that this decision comes at a time when the government is stretched to the limit in the management of its public finances. You might say that I'm exaggerating if I say that our central bank and Finance ministry are bordering on bankruptcy but please see MMA’s monthly stats. So, this decision defies all logic, reason, moral and ethical standards.
Sigh!! I’m not running our government. So, I obviously can’t do anything about it. But I wish instead of compensating Yacht Tours, our government had decided to compensate:
- The 10,000 odd people who are registered on Municipality ‘dhaftharu’ who had waited several years for a place to live.
- The thousands of people who are forced to live like packed sardines in matchbox sized rooms in Male.
- The thousands of 'rajjetherey' people who migrated to Male in search of emplyment, education and basis health services. They've been paying the riculously exorbitant Male rents with their arms and legs for years.
- The hundreds of people who 3 years after the tsunami are still living in ‘vaguthee hiya’
- The 30 odd thousand civil servants for the meager wages they had received for several years.
- The several thousand people in outer islands for having to live without access to proper healthcare, education, housing and a means to generate any income at all.
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What about compensating President Maumoon for his 1000 years of service to the poor, imbecile servants of His?
there. parliament is discussing the compensation for the President. 200,000rf plus benefits and 100,000rf pay for the woman who services the First Penis.
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