Waheed effects quick changes

Thursday evening marks the beginning of the weekend in Islamic Maldives. Not so for Waheed Hassan, President with the shortest possible honeymoon ever. At the most, he has a few weeks to put Maldives back on track. So, he wasted no time.

He began effecting changes to run the administration from Wednesday.

His first job was to appoint Home and Defence Ministers. Mohamed Jameel Ahmed was given the Home Affairs while Mohamed Nazim was made the Minister of Defence and National Security. They were told to resolve the situation, implement laws according to the Constitution and treat every citizen equally. Both the new Ministers had fallen foul of the earlier regime, and are also considered anti-India. The Home Minister had brought out a handbook against the Indian private sector company that is in charge of Male Airport, GMR. Also, the new police chief was dismissed by the Nasheed government when he was deputy police chief. All this suggest that while walking the proverbial tight rope in balancing demands, Dr. Waheed is also not averse to employing talent that is not universally acceptable. readmore