Parliamentary Finance Committee calls for the formation of a revenue monitoring body.
Amid rumours circulating by malicious parties regarding the security of civil servant salaries, the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives, represented by its member, MP Moeen Al-Kadhimi, confirmed that salaries are fully secured and that the government is working intensively to boost non-oil revenues alongside oil revenues to ensure financial stability. He stressed the need to enact a law to establish an independent body responsible for monitoring financial revenues, with the aim of achieving transparency and protecting public funds.
In an interview with Al-Sabah, Al-Kadhimi said, “State employees’ salaries are secured until the end of the current year,” noting that “the government and relevant authorities are working to increase non-oil revenues alongside oil revenues to support the state treasury.” He denied rumors about salaries not being secured, stressing that they “will be paid on the specified dates.”
The Finance Committee member stressed the “need to enact a law to establish a specialized body to monitor oil and non-oil revenues,” explaining that “control of these revenues is currently distributed between the Ministry of Finance, within the Audit Bureau, and the Council of Ministers, which necessitates the existence of an independent body to directly monitor and control.”
He explained that “the Finance Committee presented the first amendment to the Law of the General Authority for Monitoring the Allocation of Federal Revenues No. (55) of 2017 to the House of Representatives,” stressing “the importance of this amendment in establishing a special authority whose mission is to control the state’s financial revenues and follow up on violations in government institutions, in a way that ensures the protection of public funds and the enhancement of revenues in an organized and transparent manner.”
On the other hand, member of the Parliamentary Security and Defense Committee, Ali Al-Bandawi, told Al-Sabah: “The Army Aviation College Law is one of the important laws that the Security and Defense Committee was keen to support, and it was presented to the House of Representatives for legislation during the current parliamentary session.” He pointed out that “the committee was able, during the past period, to legislate several laws that serve the security establishment, including the Intelligence Service Law and the National Security Law, in addition to the Popular Mobilization Law, which has made significant progress in the drafting stages.” Al-Bandawi stressed that “the Army Aviation College Law is a very important law and will provide real support to the security forces, including the Army Aviation and supporting forces, which reflects its essential nature in developing military capabilities.”
The House of Representatives has initially approved a draft law establishing the Army Aviation College, which aims to train male and female pilots, navigators, engineers, and technicians to bolster the armed forces’ capabilities in military aviation. The college seeks to develop specialized personnel capable of keeping pace with technological developments and reducing reliance on foreign missions.
The college’s objectives are to enhance the efficiency of the armed forces’ air force by providing specialized military and academic education and training in aviation sciences, including air command, navigation, maintenance, and technical engineering. It also works to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge that qualifies them to handle the latest aviation equipment and technologies, thus enhancing air defense and deterrence capabilities at the national level.
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