iCOM orders details of dismissed political staff to be disclosed

Information Commissioner Ahmed Ahid has today ordered that the details of the 248 political appointees who the government say have been dismissed in a bid to cut State expenditures be disclosed within five days.

On October 15, President Dr Mohamed Muizzu announced that under the Economic Reform Agenda, 228 political appointees will be dismissed under efforts to bring down costs. When the deadline set for this was reached, the President's Office Spokesperson Heena Waleed announced in a post on X that 248 political appointees had been dismissed.