Former President Mohamed Nasheed has said that the Maldivian government should finalize all the arrangements for the National Inquiry Commission established for investigating the change of government on the 7th of February, before the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group holds its upcoming session during the next week. Nasheed warned that the Maldives might have to “incur serious losses” if this is not done. Responding to a question posed by a reporter today, at Malé City Hall where Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) is conducting elections to elect members for party positions, Nasheed said that the Maldivian government deliberately delayed the establishment of the Inquiry Commission as the deadline given by the Commonwealth draws nearer. He also said that “the government is hesitant in working with honesty”.
Nasheed was at the City Hall to vote in the elections of his party, and also in the party primaries for the next Presidential Election, in which he is the only candidate. Nasheed said that he was “very concerned about the way in which the Government is conducting the affairs of the Inquiry Commission”. He also said that there was an agreement between the two sides under which President Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik should sign the Resolution of the New Inquiry Commission on the 10th of this month. However, the President is, according to Nasheed, “deliberately delaying the process even after the conclusion of his recent visit to the United Kingdom”. The CMAG has been heavily criticized by all except Nasheed and his party for taking an unfounded, biased and uninformed stand in protection of Nasheed after the change of government in the Maldives on the 7th of February. While Nasheed broke the Constitution and the laws of the country and international human rights principles adhered to by the Maldives in disrupting the working of the Judiciary, arresting and detaining political opponents and Judges, the CMAG \\\"just slept\\\" according to analysts. However, the CMAG \\\"has shown an amusing kind of interest in the Maldives when Nasheed had to resign on the 7th of February, after the Maldives Police Service refused to carry out Nasheed-government\\\'s illegal orders against the people, and the Maldives National Defence Forces refused to use deadly force in subduing hundreds of police officers who were refusing to carry out those illegal orders\\\", according to a senior legal expert.