Deputy for Basra: Contractors ongoing crisis and the city of Baghdad to the province with 13 Milirdolar

11/19/2016
Special - balances News
MP for the province of Basra, Salim Chawki, Saturday, about the presence of large debts owed by the federal government has not paid off for the province, valued at $ 13 billion, indicating that the dues Contractors crisis in Basra list and there are solutions on the table. Said Shawki's / balances News /, said that "at the end of the previous session in 2013, there are government projects certified by the former provincial council in Basra was, and made by companies, these companies began to work and arrived at certain stages depending on the completion rate specified in the schedule, In 2014 there was no balance due to parliamentary disputes, and in 2015 got physical distress due to lower oil prices, and as a result got this accumulation of entitlements Contractors. " He added that "the federal government did not provide sufficient funds to the local government in order to pay these dues," noting that "the province asking the federal government to date debt of $ 13 billion, or more than 13 trillion dinars." He pointed out that "there are efforts from the House of Representatives and the provincial council and the governor to get allocations of Basra," pointing out that "Abadi promised the governor of Basra to allocate 10% of its oil dues to the province, and this 10% is possible to cover a fraction of the infrastructure broken." And that "there is an agreement with the federal government to solve the crisis dues Contractors in Basra, which is paying a bank bonds to the contractor or the company and this is the best solution to the problem and that there was a rate of interest on these bonds," stressing that "the right of the contractor to file a complaint against a local government or the federal or contracted party because the latter breached the contract concluded between them. " Shawki and that "this issue paid contractors and companies to demonstrate and claim their rights more than once, because many of them are forced to sell his property in order to pay off the accumulated debt due to them not having a great balance." The contractors gathered called Iraq Contractors in Basra province and unions Contractors to go out a demonstration in Baghdad in front of the Ministry of Finance on 28th of this month, to claim the dues, which did not happen two years ago. It ended 29 n / 10

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