President Gayoom bids fond adieu to Presidential swimming pool

by Ali Antenna

At a somber ceremony held at the Presidential Palace early this morning, President of Maldives, His Excellency Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, bid a fond adieu to his beautiful swimming pool inside his Presidential Palace.

The ceremony, to which only Bakhabaru reporters were granted exclusive access, began shortly after the new sun rose in Aneh Dhivehiraajje, after it had set with a very final splash on Maumoon’s Raajje the day before.

It was a very touching moment when the President knelt down near the swimming pool and, after saying a few whispered sweet nothings into the tranquil waters of the pool, bowed down and kissed the swimming pool goodbye. He then continued to bid adieu to many of the items in the Presidential Palace as the Palace slowly began its relentless transformation into a University and the bright rays of the new sun finally drove away the gloom and darkness accumulated over thirty long brutal years.

In the coming days the President is expected to bid fond farewells to his pleasure yacht, private island retreat, and several other invaluable trophies and other items that he had amassed during his reign as the Supreme Being of Maldives.

No interviews were allowed during the ceremony or afterwards so Bakhabaru reporters were not able to ask many of the questions they were just dying to ask, such as if it was OK now to dip their feet into the waters of the swimming pool and if the Presidential Chef was still around.

One of the Bakhabaru reporters, Mohamed Headset, was thrown out from the Palace for attending the ceremony dressed in a speedo, a duck-shaped rubber float around his ample tummy and a yellow-coloured mask & snorkel on his head. The small yellow rubber-ducky in his hand didn’t make things easier for him either.

“That would never have happened in Aneh Dhivehiraajje!” Headset later told another reporter. “You just wait and see!”