Lieutenant Colonel Zubair “forced” to retire from MNDF
04 Dec 2013, 7:48 PM
Zaheena Rasheed
A high ranking Maldives National Defense Forces (MNDF) officer has said he was forced to retire from service yesterday.
Lieutenant Colonel Zubair Ahmed who had served in the military for 34 years told opposition aligned private broadcaster Raajje TV he had been “given no choice” but to resign.
An army officer summoned Zubair and told him if he did not resign of his own volition he would be dismissed, Zubair said.
Last week the MNDF dismissed nine senior officers in an ongoing firing spree claiming the nine had violated MNDF’s regulations and sowed discord within the military
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