Controversial airport project inaugurated despite lack of contractor
The lack of a contractor to build the airport has raised concerns among some islanders that the project is a vote-winning stunt ahead of next year’s election.
14 Nov 2017, 9:00 AM
Kulhudhuffushi airport will be completed by the middle of next year, authorities have said, despite the government not yet hiring a contractor to build it.
Tourism Minister Moosa Zameer and other ruling party figures were on the remote island Sunday to inaugurate the project, which involves the destruction of mangroves.
Building the airport was a campaign pledge from President Abdulla Yameen in 2013.
But the lack of a contractor has raised concerns among some islanders that the project is a vote-winning stunt ahead of next year’s election. The only work under way is the mangrove reclamation being done by the Mahaa Jarraaf dredger, which belongs to the state-owned Maldives Transport and Contracting Company.
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