Parliament’s committee on privileges and ethics is going to ask Meedhoo constituency MP Ahmed Siyam Mohamed to apologize to MP Hisaan Hussain after calling to hang her to death.

The Thulhaadhoo constituency MP was the target of Siyam’s verbal attack at Sunday’s meeting of the parliament’s committee on national security services or the 241 committee. An audio clip was leaked online the next day.

In the clip, the voice alleged to be Siyam, also the leader of opposition Maldivian Development Alliance (MDA), is heard saying “Hisaan must really be hanged, [doing so] will not be a sin”.

While MP Hisaan brought the matter to the speaker’s attention, Vilufushi constituency MP Hassan Afeef who presided over Tuesday’s parliament condemned the act, and emphasized that such behaviour is unacceptable especially from a lawmaker.

The committee on privileges and ethics met on Wednesday to review the matter, where Manadhoo constituency MP Ahmed Haaroon's proposal to advise Siyam against repeating such acts, as well as to issue an apology to Hisaan, was approved.

The 241 committee is currently doing a probe of the security breach that led to an assassination attempt on Speaker and former President Mohamed Nasheed in early May.

While both MPs Hisaan and Siyam are on the committee, Siyam -who has not been attending sittings for days- started attending the committee meetings only after the May 6 attack was placed on its agenda.

The MDA leader is known to not attend sittings and related committee work, despite holding a parliament seat for multiple tenures; he has had one of the worst attendance records.