Current administration has failed to fulfill pledges to Addu: Solih
Solih said that projects in the city such as the development of the roads, and the water supply and sewerage systems have been stalled
Opposition candidate Solih in Addu City
President Abdulla Yameen’s administration has failed to fulfill its pledges to Addu City, says the opposition coalition’s presidential candidate, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih.
Speaking in Addu City’s Feydhoo on Saturday during his campaign trip, Solih said that government projects in the city such as the development of the roads, and the water supply and sewerage systems, that was started during former President Mohamed Nasheed’s administration, has since been stalled.
“The health sector and hospital development has still not been completed. Remember that President Yameen pledged to build a 100-bed tertiary hospital in his five-year term. Money was gathered for it during MDP (Maldivian Democratic Party)’s government. USD 20 million was placed in the budget from the OPEC fund and Saudi aid. That was the 2012 budget. However, the hospital was not built. It has been so long that now the convention center is becoming a hospital.”
Solih, who is also a longstanding member of parliament, said that no one knows what happened to the fund anymore and that the current administration has also failed to fulfill its pledge to develop a 5,000-bed resort by reclaiming land in Addu City.
Noting the many complaints of the current government’s failure to fulfill its pledges to Addu, Solih said that his party, MDP, will only make pledges that it can fulfill.
