22 February 2008

What about the Royal Luxury Yacht that Gayyoom has?

Yes, the presidential yacht built in Germany, at a cost of millions of dollars is rarely used by Gayyoom. He has a fleet of speed boats and yachts and launches (one for each type of flower: Finifen Maa, Kudhi Maa, A Maa, etc.). Does he have time to use all of those? Definitely not. There are some yachts in his fleet that he hasn’t set foot on for the last decade. But even those yachts have fulltime staff and captains and so on. Is this manic addiction to waste taxpayer’s money? We need to auction off most of these speed boats and yachts (especially the big yacht). The president could have three speed boats (a small one, a medium one and a large one). That’s enough. The rest should be sold. I’m sure there will be many bidders from the tourism sector in this country. Imagine the huge amount of money the treasury could save in terms of reduced labor cost and maintenance cost when we reasonably reduce the presidential boat fleet and relocate the presidential palace to Muleeaage and relocate the presidential retreat (Arah).

1 comment:

  1. Anonymous22/2/08 10:27

    It is said that the hugely expensive presidential yacht has an engineering fault and that it cannot be used in rough weather. What a waste of millions of dollars. Gayyoom seems to get a lot of satisfaction by living the millionaire lifestyle at the expense of poor Maldivains, most of whom earn less than three dollars a day.

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