New Mayor promises a bright future for Mal

Ali “Maizan Alibe” Manik, the new Mayor for Malé City has assured upon his election to the office that administration of Malé that has “gone haywire” would be brought under full control, and that Malé would be a “truly beautiful” city in the future.

Maizan Alibe was elected as the new Mayor of Maldives’ capital city today by Malé City Council. He won 10 out of 11 votes in the Council election.

In an interview given to Sun following his election, Maizan Alibe said that the developmental process of the major city in the country had been paralyzed due to disruption in various projects, and that those projects would be restarted as soon as possible.

“We are looking into things that need to be put right. The condition of Malé is very bad, but my vision is that soon this city will be a beautiful city, where a population of moral, law-abiding citizens live”, Maizan Alibe said.

On the issue of congestion in Malé, which happens to be burdened with nearly one-third of the country’s population, Maizan Alibe said that the Veshifahi Malé project would be revised and implemented. Veshifahi Malé project has been designed by the government in order to find a solution to the problem of lack of homes form people living in Malé.

“We will work in order to implement government policies. One of the most important of them is connected to the Veshifahi Malé project, and all the Councilors in the Malé City Council have agreed that it should be our biggest priority”, Maizan Alibe said.

Maizan Alibe also assured that he would extend all cooperation to the government, the Councilors and the people as a Mayor.

Maizan Alibe was elected as new Mayor following the resignation of Adam “Sarangu” Manik from the office only a few months after the latter was elected as the first Mayor of the capital city. Councilors had attempted twice to conduct a no-confidence vote against Sarangu, before he resigned. Maizan Alibe said that there were no conflicts between him and Sarangu, and that former Mayor had given assurance that he would be fully committed to cooperating in affairs of the Council.

Maizan Alibe said that new developmental processes in Malé would cause some inconveniences to the people, and he requested the people to be patient at this time of “rebuilding” the city. “About the difficulties that are bound to be caused by new project implementation, I urge the people to be patient, and the Council would always be open to complaints from the public”, he said.