Dear Excellency:
I humbly take this opportunity to appeal to you to address, during your five-year term you will assume as the supreme leader of our beloved nation on 17 November 2023, the following critical issues that currently plague our community and threaten to tear apart the very fabric of our small society:-
1) The whole nation is been plundered. Anything that is in reach, in any way, and in any amount, is been looted. The people who fill in the posts of the State is looting the State. The remaining people are coming out every day to break into the shops of citizens and plunder their businesses. Proprietors are selling commodities at whatever prices that meet their whims and thereby exploiting citizens. After returning from work super tired and we turn on the air-conditioner to cool down only to find out that the outdoor unit has been stolen. A private office is broken into, the safe removed, it being carried to the next-door house, where it is forcibly opened, and dumped onto the street in front of the house, in full view of CCTV cameras although the investigation team cannot identify the perpetrators.
2) Whether the youth, the middle-aged or are a large part of the nation, slumped on whatever surfaces available, being unable to stand up properly, rendering anyone who can open his or her eyes find it difficult to take in these disturbing imagery. Stepping out of home and before reaching the motorcycle there will hardly be any occasion when we are not approached by a handful of people who would beg for 10 Rufiya or so to have a cup of tea. The garbage bag cannot be taken out without people coming to go through it even before the stray cats come to break it open and spill its contents in search of some food.
3) It now amounts to madness even to hope for justice in this country. If someone does seek justice, it has to be carried out on the street on one’s own. Everyone believes justice cannot be obtained through the rule of law. A tenant flees without having paid rent for a long time. The rent that amounts to more than a 100,000 Rufiya are aggravated by more thousands of Rufiya incurred on the unpaid electricity and water bills. When the tenant left without settling the payments for the utility bills, the landlord finds that already the utility providers had disconnected the supply of electricity and water to that particular apartment. The apartment becomes habitable again after the landlord him/herself is forced to settle all those payments amounting to more than a 100,000 Rufiya. The apparatus in the toilets and even the tiles had to be removed.
4) Three years have passed since the matter was referred to the court to obtain the unpaid rent that was due to the landowner. Two years have passed with him/her shuttling to the court to plea for the case to be convicted as a matter of a proven unsettled debt. The defendant could not be summoned to the trial. There is no provision for the State to be able to summon to the court the defendant if he/she declines to do so under the new civil procedures that were introduced. It’s been a year since the court has written to the State’s institutions to determine whether the defendant has property. The institutions do not answer the letter sent to them by the court even when it comes close to a year since the letter had been delivered. Hence, the court has not included the case on its agenda this year. What then remains is resorting to place the case on the agenda of the “street court”.
5) This is the State of the Nation. If these wrongs cannot be righted, what’s the point of building airports and bridges? Today everyone is pondering on where to shift their lives to other than here. Is there a use for a leader who doesn’t consider these as serious matters? If there is no one who has the capability to bear the brunt of solving these issues, is there a reason to waste time in going to vote?
Yours faithfully,
(Mr.) Abdul Rasheed Ali
Sad state of our nation.
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