{"id":66332,"date":"2025-07-15T20:57:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/?p=66332"},"modified":"2025-07-15T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:57:35","slug":"credit-for-new-terminal-should-go-to-those-who-deserve-it-president-muizzu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/66332\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit for New Terminal Should Go to Those Who Deserve It: President Muizzu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"494\"><strong data-start=\"246\" data-end=\"254\">Mal\u00e9<\/strong> \u2014 President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu has emphasized that as the opening of Velana International Airport&#8217;s new terminal approaches, credit for its development should be given to all who genuinely contributed \u2014 regardless of political affiliation.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"496\" data-end=\"749\">Speaking on the government\u2019s <em data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"544\">&#8220;With the People&#8221;<\/em> podcast, President Muizzu said that the public will soon be able to see, through documented figures and facts, the role played by each administration in the progress of the billion-dollar airport project.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"751\" data-end=\"1132\">The terminal, scheduled to open on July 26, was part of a broader infrastructure plan initiated during the presidency of Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom. While plans were laid out during that time, actual construction had not begun before the end of Yameen\u2019s term. The project then continued through the administration of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih and now under President Muizzu.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1134\" data-end=\"1426\">In his remarks, President Muizzu noted that politicizing major development projects by tying them to individual leaders is an unhealthy societal trend. \u201cWhatever people say, the facts remain unchanged,\u201d he said, adding that the complete timeline and contributions are already well-documented.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1428\" data-end=\"1667\">He also acknowledged the foundational work done to develop the airport during the earlier presidencies of Ibrahim Nasir and Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. \u201cWe must show appreciation and give credit to all those who truly deserve it,\u201d Muizzu stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1669\" data-end=\"1854\">The President\u2019s comments underscore the need to view national development as a collective effort across administrations \u2014 and to ensure that recognition is based on merit, not politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mal\u00e9 \u2014 President Dr. Mohamed Muizzu has emphasized that as the opening of Velana International Airport&#8217;s new terminal approaches, credit for its development should be given to all who genuinely contributed \u2014 regardless of political affiliation. Speaking on the government\u2019s &#8220;With the People&#8221; podcast, President Muizzu said that the public will soon be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":66333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66334,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66332\/revisions\/66334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raajje24.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}