January 10, 2023
Baghdad / Obelisk: Representative Muhammad Al-Khafaji considered, on Tuesday 10/01/2023, that withdrawing the hand of the governor of Diwaniyah is a decision in the right direction.
Al-Khafaji told Al-Masalla that the decision is supposed to include other governors and other general managers who have suspicions of corruption, as well as mismanagement.
Al-Khafaji called for the exemption of others accused of wasting public money and misusing power, in addition to the heads of investment commissions in the provinces, including the Karbala Investment Commission.
On Tuesday, January 10, 2023, Prime Minister Muhammad Shia al-Sudani ordered the withdrawal of the hand of Diwaniyah Governor Zuhair Ali al-Shaalan.
According to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Media Office, this came due to the existence of investigation files against him on suspicions of administrative and financial corruption, which are being considered by the competent courts.
On Monday, January 9, 2023, Prime Minister Muhammad Shayaa al-Sudani decided to end the mandate of the head of the National Retirement Authority, Iyad Mahmoud Hadi al-Jubouri, while directing the preparation of a building worthy of the retirement authority.
And the decisions to exempt the corrupt and the negligent, raise the balance of the government among the citizens who monitor the looting of public money without an appropriate deterrent, and an iron fist.
Corruption has reached Iraq, as the Supreme Commission for Combating Corruption announced on January 9, 2023, the arrest of (5) suspects red-handed while receiving an amount of (49,000) thousand US dollars out of an amount of (100,000) thousand dollars from a complainant who was subjected to blackmail and bargaining In exchange for reactivating the investment license granted for a project to establish a residential complex in the city of Samarra at a value of (240,000,000) million dollars, indicating that the agreement included granting an amount of 3% of the total value of the project after they settled the issue with the head of the Investment Commission of Salah al-Din Governorate.
On Monday, January 9, 2023, the Iraqi Minister of Communications, Hayam al-Yasiri, issued a ministerial order dismissing 5 officials, and assigning their assistants to their positions until other managers are appointed, due to suspicions of mismanagement and corruption.
Corruption has permeated some of the integrity officials themselves, as the Commission announced on January 10, 2023, former employees of the Commission accused of bribery, inflated funds, and illicit gain.
At the beginning of 2023, the leader in the coordination framework, Turki Al-Atbi, revealed three points produced by the governors’ evaluation lists, indicating that the results will probably lead to the change of four governors.
Al-Atbi said in a press statement, followed by the Obelisk, that the initial evaluation revealed 3 important points regarding the competence of the governors and the presence of suspicions of corruption and abuse of influence, indicating that in light of our expectations that the compass of change may affect 4 of them in the next stage.
And changing the governors or working to improve their performance and remove them from partisan mantles is at the heart of the government’s tasks.
On the way to making a quantum leap in the work of the provincial administrations, the head of the State of Law coalition and influential leader Nuri al-Maliki met with a number of governors.
While there were rumors that Al-Maliki was pressuring Al-Sudani to change the governors, a member of the State of Law Coalition said on November 27, 2022 that Al-Maliki did not direct Al-Sudani to change the governors.
Some governors in Iraq are accused of corruption, and the cities of Iraq have had bitter experiences with them, and some of them fled abroad, in addition to their declining administrative, leadership, and cognitive skills. Fitness and correct vocabulary, considering that if the situation continues to choose people at this level, it means that the situation remains as it is in terms of deterioration in the health, educational and service reality of the central and southern governorates.
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