After the government finally accepted the nomination made by former President Mohamed Nasheed to the Commission of National Inquiry (CNI) set up to probe the circumstances surrounding the transfer of power on February 7, the name has now been withdrawn. Nasheed has nominated Mariyam Manaal Shihab who is the daughter of former Minister in the previous administration Mohamed Shihab.
A prominent government official that Manaal’s name had been withdrawn after she had been accepted by the government.
Opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) has refuted the claims that Nasheed had proposed a nominee to the CNI.
MDP Spokesperson Imthiyaz 'Inthi' Fahmy alleged that the claims made by the government were baseless and if Nasheed did make a nomination to CNI, the former President would duly inform the party first.
However, Nasheed is yet to inform the party of such a decision, Inthi added.
It has been found that Manaal had formerly worked in the legal department of the Economic Ministry.
Manaal as the nominee of Nasheed to the CNI had been accepted after the government had rejected various other nominations citing that they did not meet the specified criteria.
The last nominee Lieutenant Colonel Zubair Ahmed Manik of the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) had been rejected by the government claiming that he did not meet the education criteria as per the prior agreement with opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
The work of the CNI has been temporarily halted until the proposed changes to the composition of the Commission are completed.
The government had decided to appoint a retired Judge from Singapore as the Co-Chair and a nominee of former President Nasheed to the Commission, following the call by the Commonwealth to revise the CNI in order to make it more independent, impartial and generally acceptable by the people.
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