Missing weapons from state armoury ‘a national security failure’
President Abdulla Yameen as the commander-in-chief must bear full responsibility for weapons that went missing from the state armoury, the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has said. The military has acknowledged that a rifle and a submachine gun found in a weapons cache discovered on Friday in the lagoon of an uninhabited island in Baa atoll were from its armoury.
01 Nov 2015, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen as the commander-in-chief must bear full responsibility for weapons that went missing from the state armoury, the main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has said.
The military has acknowledged that a rifle and a submachine gun found in a weapons cache discovered on Friday in the lagoon of an uninhabited island in Baa atoll were from its armoury.
Expressing concern with the unprecedented weapons haul, the MDP called the breach of the state armoury a “national security failure.”
“As the armoury of the military is under the direct control of the president, President Abdulla Yameen must bear full responsibility for the dangers faced due to the failure to maintain the security of the armoury.” the party said in a statement today.
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