The President’s Office has decided to extend the application deadline to fill a membership vacancy at the National Integrity Commission (NIC).

The new deadline to submit applications is 12 30 pm on Thursday, 3 September 2020.

It said that interested applicants may submit their applications between 1-3 September 2020, between 9 30 am and 12 30 pm, to the President's Office reception.

Application forms are available from the President's Office reception area and can be downloaded from the President's Office website: www.presidency.gov.mv/

Earlier this month, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih dismissed NIC President Ahmed Sulaiman after the parliament voted to remove him from the post. The vote was passed with the approval from all 58 MPs that participated in yesterday's session.

Sulaiman took over the NIC on the 1st of March 2018. He had also fulfilled the post of Elections Commissioner.

The National Integrity Commission is an independent legal entity possessing powers to undertake its mandate in its own capacity

Its main objective is to investigate unlawful acts of Law Enforcement Agencies and employees of such agencies and to investigate where the commission of such an act is suspected or if any party submits a complaint that such an act has or is being committed.