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Go back to Adeeb. Look at what we allowed to happen. 2014. Yameen creates the SEZ Board of Investments. Ahmed Adeeb chairs it. Mohamed Saeed is his deputy. Around that time, Adeeb is texting MMPRC boss Abdulla Ziyath about island deals. “We will make zone deals not only islands hehe.” Ziyath replies: “The untouchables.” Their actual messages. And while all this was happening, politicians from BOTH sides were approaching Adeeb. The Adeeb Files contain 81,167 messages. Investigative journalists identified at least 18 MPs involved in exchanges about money, jobs or favours. PPM politicians. MDP politicians. One opposition MP was asking Adeeb for loans while discussing his own party's deliberations over appointing a Prosecutor General. These were the people supposed to hold the government accountable. 2015. Adeeb falls. Saeed takes over the SEZ Board. Muizzu joins it. The system carries on. Now look at Noomadi. Nasheed's government signs the first agreement in 2011. Another follows under Waheed in 2013. Yameen's government terminates the contracts while Muizzu is housing minister. Noomadi demands $155 million. Solih's government eventually settles for $55 MILLION. Muizzu is accused of giving false testimony in the arbitration. He's later acquitted after the prosecution fails to prove its case. Different governments. Different decisions. One enormous bill. And in November 2023, days before leaving office, Solih pardons Adeeb and Ziyath. The two men convicted over the MMPRC scandal. Now back to Saeed and Muizzu. 2025. The SEZ law is amended to accommodate luxury townships. Who signs the $790 million Ayla investment agreement? Mohamed Saeed. Who designates it a special economic zone? President Mohamed Muizzu. The same two men who served on Adeeb's SEZ Board a decade earlier. And now Ras Malé. 500 hectares. 8,800 planned properties. Another enormous development. Another agreement whose full terms remain hidden. I'm not claiming Ayla or Ras Malé is another MMPRC scandal. They are different projects, and Ras Malé is being pursued under a different proposed law. But I find it extraordinary that we went through one of the biggest corruption scandals in our history, saw the messages, the convictions, the pardons, and somehow ended up right back here, unable to examine the agreements being made over our land. Saeed and Muizzu aren't newcomers to this system. They were sitting on the SEZ Board in 2015. They know its history. And the parties that took turns governing this country know exactly what happened with MMPRC and Noomadi. So how are we still signing enormous agreements involving public land without publishing the terms? How is that even acceptable anymore? Forget what they promise to do after the next election. We've heard enough of those promises. After everything that happened, I would have thought the absolute minimum we learned was never to let another government make these decisions behind closed doors.