Special Advisor to the President, and ruling Maldivian Democratic Party’s prominent leader Ibrahim “Ibraa” Ismail has said that his party had found a way to cut off one of the roots of the Maldivian Judiciary only a few days after the people had started to voice out their criticism of the Judiciary. Referring to the case in which the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) voted to find Criminal Court Chief Judge Abdullah Muhammad guilty of breaching code of conduct for judges, Ibraa said that the decision was the result of the people’s pressure. Speaking in a gathering at the Activity Centre of MDP in Malé last night, Ibraa described the decision of the JSC as a great success, and said that “we still need to work to clean anti-justice Courts and realize the independence of the Judiciary”. “JSC has been there for three years, and they have done nothing. However, as soon as we started our protests against the Judiciary, it has suddenly come alive and started to perform its functions”, said Ibraa. Ibraa also said that one of the most important steps to reform the Judiciary was for the people to closely watch what happened there. He said that people should, as such, develop a habit of going to Courts to hear cases as much as possible. Ibraa has condemned the Maldivian Judiciary a number of times within the last four months, and called upon his party’s activists to go on the streets to reform the Judiciary and the judges of the Maldives, and called the seven Justices at the Supreme Court “seven lunatics” more than once.