Housing Minister resigns from post

The Housing Minister of Maldives Aiminath Athifa has resigned from her post.

Sun has learned that the Minister's decision to resign comes due to perceived ill-health.

Athifa was appointed to the post in a slot reserved for the former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s Maldives Reform Movement party. 

She had received a lot of criticism for her statements regarding the Hiyaa flat project in Hulhumale’. The Minister had informed a parliament committee that the tenants of the flats would receive the flats by the end of July, only to retract the statement and say that she had made a mistake.

Calls to impeach her from the post had also been rung from the public. A senior member of MDP had also requested the Speaker of the Parliament to remove her from her post.