Have a look at the following words penned by the former information minister Kutti Nasheed on his blog last Thursday:
“Yet, Suood’s drawbacks, when weighed on a fair balance, was no comparison to the dirty tricks played by Mohamed Shihab, as the erstwhile speaker of parliament. How he rolled up the institution and presented it to the president in exchange for a promise of reward – the post of Home Affairs Minister couldn’t be ignored.”
One should always look at oneself in the mirror before making pronouncements on others.
Kutti Nasheed rose to prominence by serving the whims of President Gayoom’s disreputable brother Abdulla Hameed during their tenure at the People’s Majlis. Hameed was speaker and Nasheed was secretary-general.
He was plucked from this post and given the job of re-packaging Gayoom and selling him to a public tiring of the stale, old dictator. As a reward for his efforts he was given the additional portfolio of legal reform and had by then become one of the most influential members of the cabinet.
Of course, you could sense that Nasheed was finally becoming uncomfortable about associating with the regime. He tried to distance himself by playing a more low-key role in the presidential campaign. Yet it appears that he was not being true to himself when he, once again, came to the defence of Gayoom by wholeheartedly endorsing him in the second round.
This led to a rare public dressing down from his friend and fellow blogger Simon Shareef. The following passage is from a blog entry on randomreflexions.com the day before the election:
“But what is truly mind boggling is that so-called educated and learned people like minister Nasheed can digest lies and clown around in front of the old fool like a little school boy trying to please his headmaster. Is he exercising his democratic right or being a complete asshole I wonder? It baffles me to think what he could possibly gain from outrightly insulting 60% of the electorate and insulting those who have suffered at the hands of Gayoom under his watch! Enlightened and educated people see the weight of mounting evidence such as the Auditor General’s reports or just a glance at history and do what is morally right. But Mr. Nasheed et. al. are below basic human morality and integrity. How else do we explain this?”
The bottom line is this. Nasheed got to where he is by rolling up the people of this country and presenting it to Gayoom. Maybe it is the recognition of this fact that makes it difficult for him to completely sever his ties to the former dictator.
He has also been stung by his actions being labelled as cognitive dissonance by a Minivan News columnist and has dedicated an entire blog post to detail his perceived shortcomings of the current president. Once again, he cannot find it within himself to fault Gayoom.
1 comment:
baara-theyra says "The bottom line is this. Nasheed got to where he is by rolling up the people of this country and presenting it to Gayoom."
But it turns out to be the opposite of what Nasheed did. Take into account the fact that reform agenda was later on taken solely by Nasheed himself at the end of Gayoom's administration.
And this reform agenda as in the article in Minivannews.com "It was so successful Gayoom ended up losing his job."
So in general what Nasheed did with the opportunity Gayoom gave him was to roll up Gayoom and presented him to the people to be judged in a free and fair manner through reform agenda.
This is something that coup attempts and several demonstration and two or three "bara theyra" or cursing Gayoom in numerous number of blogs DID NOT archive.
This man(PM nasheed) in my view is one who still have few tricks to play with Gayoom.
His only wish is the ruling party be a little bit mature in bringing Gayoom to justice.
So that it will be fair and a good lesson to the rest of our generation. Not another addition of dirty tricks in our history books of politicians which our current president must be fully aware of.
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