Housing minister defends anonymised flat winners list
Muiz denied allegations that applicants of the government’s social housing programme were phoned by the first lady’s campaign office to check their political allegiance.
18 Sep 2017, 9:00 AM
Housing Minister Dr Mohamed Muiz has defended an anonymised list of winners of flats in Hulhumalé, denying allegations that applicants were phoned by the first lady’s campaign office to check their political allegiance.
At a testy press conference Monday morning, Muiz insisted that the 661 flat winners were chosen from more than 15,000 applicants after the most thorough and robust verification effort by any Maldivian government.
“There were three verification processes and then ministry staff conducted home visits to make sure that the information provided by applicants was truthful,” he said, assuring that the evaluation process was conducted fairly to ensure that the shortlisted were “the poorest, the neediest, and the most deserving.”
Housing ministry staff spent 246 days surveying households, he said.
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