Parliamentary Committee on National Security Services has summoned Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed's bodyguards for the inquiry on the May 6 terrorist attack.
The committee has been summoning individual police and military officers for the inquiry, including the speaker's bodyguards, who are part of the Special Protection Group (SPG) of the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF).
The committee previously questioned Commissioner of Police Mohamed Hameed, Chief Superintendent of Police Moosa Ali, and Superintendent of Police Fareed Ismail, as well as Chief of Defence Force Major General Abdulla Shamaal, Vice Chief of Defence Force Brigadier General Abdul Raheem Abdul Latheef, and Director General of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) Zakariyya Mansoor. The committee has also questioned Minister of National Planning, Housing and Infrastructure Mohamed Aslam and former Mayor of Male' City Sifa Mohamed.
The committee has stated its aim is to find the source of any security breach relating to the attack against the parliament speaker and give its recommendations to the government to prevent such an incident in the future.