Parliament accepts emergency motion over Adeeb’s travel abroad
MP Mickail said that the prisons commissioner should be summoned to ascertain the security measures for Adeeb's trip
The emergency motion was proposed by South Galolhu MP Mickail Naseem
The parliament has accepted an emergency motion over the correctional service’s decision to allow former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb to seek medical treatment abroad.
The emergency motion, proposed by South Galolhu MP Mickail Naseem, was accepted with 53 votes on Wednesday.
MP Mickail said that Adeeb is involved in many criminal cases and that he has been accused of having a hand in allowing suspects in the murder of Dr Afrasheem Ali and the abduction of Ahmed Rilwan flee the country.
He said that the prisons commissioner should be summoned to the parliament’s committee on independent institutions for questioning to ascertain the security measures taken to ensure that Adeeb would not flee once out of the country.
He also expressed concern over the fast-tracking of Adeeb’s cases and raised suspicion over a judge’s decision to cut his holiday short to overturn his guilty verdicts.
The committee on national security and foreign relations has decided to summon the heads of the institutions responsible for approving Adeeb’s medical trip.
Home minister Imran Abdulla, prisons commissioner Abdulla Munaz, a senior police officer, and a senior Immigrations officer are to be summoned for questioning at 4pm.
At the committee meeting, Maamigili MP Qasim Ibrahim disapproved of Vilufushi MP Hassan Afeef’s proposal to question them behind closed door. The committee decided to keep the questioning open to the public if there were no objections from the four being summoned.
