The Parliamentary Investigation Committee on Electricity Contracts: We reached preliminary results and convictions
The Parliamentary Investigation Committee on Electricity Contracts: We reached preliminary results and convictions
11/30/2020 15:21:24
{Baghdad: Al Furat News} The parliamentary committee charged with investigating the Ministry of Electricity contracts since 2003 revealed that it had reached “preliminary results.”
A member of the committee and head of the parliamentary services and reconstruction committee, Walid al-Sahlani, told {Al-Furat News}: “We cannot declare because we have a specific measure that we will take, and a formal agreement has become in this between the members of the committee and its chairman, First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hassan al-Kaabi.”
However, he added, “We reached preliminary results, diagnoses, and convictions, and I cannot declare those involved and reveal their names.”
The Parliamentary Investigative Committee was to examine and investigate the contracts of the Ministry of Electricity from 2003 to 2020 and to uncover corruption in all those years. It held its first meeting on May 13, chaired by the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hassan Al-Kaabi, with the membership of the heads of the Oil, Energy, Integrity, Services, Reconstruction, Economy and Investment Committees, and the parliamentary head of the Diwan. Financial Supervision, Head of the Agency for Integrity and General Director of Investigations of Integrity.
Al-Kaabi said at the time, “It is the first time in the history of the House of Representatives that an investigation committee is formed in which the legislative authority participates in its supervisory capacity, and the supervisory authorities are represented by the Bureau of Financial Supervision and the Integrity Commission, which would exercise a broader and more accurate oversight role. The committee will also work on files during longer periods of time, which is our responsibility.” Legitimacy, legality and humanity also by uncovering corruption and recovering stolen or wasted public funds. ”
Al-Kaabi pointed out that the sums spent on electricity, according to the tables that he personally saw, are “very huge” not commensurate with the extent of the citizen’s suffering and his continuous tragedy throughout the previous years of deterioration and lack of electrical energy without real knowledge of the causes.
It is noteworthy that the committee has held many meetings since its formation with senior officials in the Ministry of Electricity.
Successive governments since 2003 have not been able to end the suffering of Iraqis, especially in the blazing summer season and the increase in demand for electric power due to corruption, failed projects and other delusional ones.
A former spokesman for the Prime Minister, Ahmed Mulla Talal, said in a press statement that governments after 2003 spent more than $ 60 billion on the electricity sector.
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