Yameen on Adeeb and corruption allegations in rare press conference
President Abdulla Yameen took questions from reporters for the first time since October 2015 at an extraordinary press conference in mid-July. He addressed long-standing allegations of corruption and spoke at length on the ruling party split and loss of the pro-government majority in parliament.
21 Aug 2017, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen took questions from reporters for the first time since October 2015 at an extraordinary press conference in mid-July. He addressed long-standing allegations of corruption and spoke at length on the ruling party split and loss of the pro-government majority in parliament.
On jailed former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb and the Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation corruption scandal
Adeeb is someone who has been with me in political activities. for a very long time. He worked with me in [Yameen’s former party People’s Alliance] before. Adeeb was someone I had trust in who was politically young but who worked with us genuinely and with courage. As such, due to the change in our government because of President [Mohamed] Nasheed’s resignation, I was one of the people who worked to make Adeeb the tourism minister during [Dr Mohamed] Waheed’s presidency. President Maumoon [Abdul Gayoom] approved of it and as such Adeeb became tourism minister.
There were reasons we chose Adeeb as tourism minister. He had a really good PR. We wanted progress for the industry. We chose Adeeb to have someone courageous, enterprising and with good PR. We noticed things after we chose Adeeb. He also did a lot of good things for President Waheed.
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