The investigation of electricity contracts is intensifying … We will diagnose corrupt people, whoever they are
Shafaq News / The head of the investigation committee for electricity contracts, Hassan Al-Kaabi, announced today, Sunday, that the amounts spent on electricity are “very large” that are not commensurate with the suffering of the citizen during the previous years, and while he stressed that his committee “will not be like its predecessors”, he pledged to expose the entire waste of public money Corruption in this sector since 2003.
In a statement received to Shafaq News, Al-Kaabi said that the Parliamentary and Supervisory Committee charged with investigating and auditing the contracts of the Ministry of Electricity, headed by him, visited today, the headquarters of the Ministry of Electricity, indicating that they were received by Minister Majid Mahdi of the Emirate and the advance staff in the ministry.
Al-Kaabi, upon his arrival with the Investigation Committee, chaired an expanded meeting in which a full review was made of the actual investment spending of the Ministry from 2005 to 2019, energy production projects, stations rehabilitation, energy transmission and distribution projects, rehabilitation of power transmission lines and lines, and expenditures of the upstream departments, as well as the current spending of the Ministry with all the details and total Design and lost capabilities of stations implemented since 2003 until today, according to the statement.
Al-Kaabi stressed that the investigation committee will not be like its predecessors from the parliamentary committees and we will not discuss any future plans and programs for the work of the Ministry of Electricity, but rather the origin of the formation of the committee is the full scrutiny and investigation of all of the ministry’s contracts since 2003 to 2020 and the disclosure of all public money waste and corruption that accompanied them, pointing to The amounts spent on electricity, according to the tables he personally viewed today, are “very large” that are not commensurate with the size of the citizen’s suffering and his continuous tragedy during the previous years of the deterioration and lack of electric power without real knowledge of the reasons.
The committee, headed by Al-Kaabi, called on the Ministry of Electricity to officially answer a set of issues, including those related to obstetric stations and the economic feasibility of them in light of the available capabilities, and to provide them with a list of concluded contracts, their classification, their value, the duration of implementation and the companies implemented and automated in the checks, the timing of the contract, construction, qualification and type of fuel until July 2020.
Al-Kaabi noted that the committee will start hosting a number of officials inside and outside the ministry, including them in the ongoing service or outside it, according to what the committee considers and its work, and within the frameworks of the official investigation, to diagnose the deficiencies, whether in the ministry or other ministries and relevant government institutions, and the causes of corruption And his people, whoever they are and wherever they are.
The President of the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Mohamed Al-Halbousi, instructed, on July 12, to form a committee to scrutinize and investigate the contracts of the Ministry of Electricity.