Ex-auditor general hits back at reinstated lawmakers
Niyaz drew fire from the former ruling lawmakers in a Twitter spat last week.
10 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
Former auditor general Niyaz Ibrahim has hit back at corruption and bribery allegations levelled by former ruling party lawmakers who recently regained their seats.
A Twitter spat started last week when Niyaz criticised plans to hand the dozen reinstated lawmakers coalition tickets without a primary. He also expressed interest in contesting for his native Thinadhoo constituency in the March 2019 parliamentary elections.
The former Progressive Party of Maldives lawmakers were complict in the outgoing administration’s “atrocities” before they defected to the opposition, Niyaz suggested.
He drew a storm of tweets from some of the MPs who accused him of corruption and “hiding” in self-imposed exile while others “carried out jihad against injustice.” Niyaz was planning to “parachute in with a suit on and bid for a job after spending three years away from the heat,” MP Mohamed Mustafa tweeted.
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