Report: Soodh
Information Minister and Acting Attorney General Mohamed Nasheed has said that the wait for the person who would take up the vacant Attorney General’s post would soon come to an end. Attorney General position has been vacant since the resignation of the former Attorney General Dr. Hassan Saeed.
Answering a question sent to Mr. Nasheed’s personnel internet blog referring to a statement in the blog, which said that President Maumoon would appoint some one to the vacant Attonery General’s post after the president visit to Jordon. Mr. Nashed replying to question said that when he made that statement the governments thinking was in a similar manner.
Mr. Nasheed said the power to appoint Ministers to the cabinet lies solely with the president and even though he made such a statement in his personal blog, the president does not have to comply with it.
Information Minister Mohamed Nasheed now says that president has appointed an Attorney General. Mr. Nasheed, in his blog, says that there are people capable of assuming the responsibilities of the post and that he wanted to answer the question as some people were spreading rumors that he himself was one of the candidates for the vacant post of Attorney General. Earlier Nasheed has said that he would not accept the position of Attonery General as Dr. Hassan Saeed was one his best friends. Mr. Nasheed said that he cannot marry his best friends ex wife.
With the resignation of former Attorney General Dr. Hassan Saeed, on August 2007 the position has been vacant.VELIDHOO COMMUNITY
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