10 March 2008

Go Adduans! Don’t wait for Gayyoom to help you disjoin Herethere

Under instructions from Maumoon, his slave, Ahmed Abdullah, is desperately trying to blackmail the people of Addu, in the matter of removing the causeway between Herethere-Resort and Hulhudhoo. MTDC, the para-statal authority responsible for the development of the resort says that removing the causeway would stop the growth of unwanted seaweed in the parts of the resort’s lagoon. The Environment Ministry, which has to authorize such a breaking of the causeway, disputes the claims of MTDC, and wants to delay the process, with ridiculous bureaucracy.
This is an issue directly related to the economic lifeline of the biggest atoll in the country. Gayyoom has lied to the Addu people for nearly quarter of a century about building a resort in the atoll. After 25 years - with much help from Dr. Shauqee, Damas Solih, Champaa and Waddey – the people of Addu has a resort. Now Gayyoom and his Environment Minister (who, by the way, probably can’t even spell the word “environment”), is issuing technical reports, filled with jargon, basically saying that the regime would allow the breaking of the causeway only if the people of Addu vote for Gayyoom’s party in the upcoming presidential election.
Adduans should not allow Gayyoom and his illiterate Environment Minister to blackmail them this way. They should pick their spades and other tools and gather at Hulhudhoo Island and remove the causeway themselves.
Gayyoom lives in his small and isolated pond and he probably thinks that if we disjoin Hulhudhoo and Herethere, the sea level would rise immediately and the Indian subcontinent would be flooded. He thinks that by preventing Maldivians from importing a few grammes of CFC (in a few dozens of refrigerators) he can “save” the planet. By following Gayyoom’s ridiculous environment policies this small nation is suffering economically. What does it matter to the world environment if we import a few fridges or reclaim some island or break a causeway?
The only thing that Gayyoom’s environmental scaremongering (about sea level rise) has done is stop international investors from investing in Maldives (a “sinking” country). I call upon the opposition presidential candidates to put all this environmental gibberish of Gayyoom in the dustbin when they come to power. It something he has used to attract attention to himself and it hasn’t served any purpose to us Maldivian.
So, dear Adduans, if you want to see Herethere resort (and consequently the whole atoll) prosper; don’t wait for Gayyoom and his so-called Environment Minister to approve the removing of the causeway between the two islands. Just pick your tools and gather at the site and do it yourself. If he wants to fine, then he can fine me for instigating you, and his bureaucratic slaves could fine you (the whole people of Addu) for “starting the sea-level rise”.

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