Opposition chief slams govt over job threat video

Maldives Democratic Party (MDP) chairperson Fayyaz Ismail on Wednesday hit out at the government for making jobs a tool and using it to threaten a Road Development Corporation (RDC) employee with a video purportedly showing how a civil employee’s job was threatened by the government.

Fayyaz poured out his sentiments to 'X', with a video of a female RDC employee talking about being forced to go somewhere and being threatened to lose her job if she refused to do so.

In the video, the female employee says she is allegedly asked in ultimatum if she will go or not. Then after that, the threats; 'I only have to make one call and that call will get you fired,' the woman recounted.

"He then said to me that I will starve after that. I told him that I had food before and that it wasn’t from RDC," the woman said in the video.

Her words depict that she was being forced to go to a political event, but it is not clear where.

Tagging President Dr Mohammed Muizzu, Fayyaz said that MDP supporters are not going to be stricken by threats. He said it was regrettable that the President was not aware of it.

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Fayyaz said that if MDP wins a majority in the upcoming parliamentary elections, it will be made a legal offence to fire for political purposes. He also said that the employees of state-owned companies will be assured the same legal protection as those given to civil servants.