Remember the entourages complete with tuxedoed officials proudly pointing their noses skywards as they flanked Maumoon during his presidential trips? Remember how every time Maumoon came back from a foreign country the tarmac would be lined with an endless cohort of ministers who always had a smile and a warm handshake? Dear reader, ask yourself why all these accomplices (who were so viscerally pro-Maumoon for the longest time) are now either dropping out of sight or pointing their fingers at Maumoon.

Consider the majority of leading capitalists of Maldives. Remember how everyone would accuse these capitalists of collaborating with the government in amassing their fortunes? Remember how a kith or kin of the president always seemed to be complicit in building these oligarchies? Is it not surprising that these oligarchs are now refusing to defend Maumoon? Even more so that they are accusing the ex-president of corruption (that which they themselves profited from)?

The same old oligarchs are using the spectacle of Maumoon's demise to cover up the corruption they helped seed. The fact is the current government is helping pave the way for the cleansing of the oligarchies by victimizing their old vassal: Maumoon.

Dear reader. Consider your country's future in the hands of a government resorting to quick-fixes and smoke-screen tactics. If you are concerned, demand investigations against all the accomplices of the former government. Give no quarter to anyone who helped the former government enjoy those entourages whilst you had to make do with the most measly of incomes (if you can call it an income at all).