Ex-president Yameen taunts ‘failed’ government

Addressing supporters at a sparsely-attend rally at the capital’s eastern artificial beach, Yameen lambasted the current administration, which he accused of nepotism, incompetence and failure to maintain border security.

“If you can’t check how people who depart and leave from Malé were able to do it, shouldn’t you say ‘I can’t do this,’ give up and step aside,” he said, referring to his former vice president Ahmed Adeeb fleeing as a stowaway on a tugboat in defiance of a travel ban imposed by the Supreme Court.

The alleged safe refuge offered to fugitive Abdulla Luthfee by the Maldives embassy in Sri Lanka was meanwhile the “biggest atrocity” committed by the government, for which senior officials should take responsibility and resign, he said.