Governor of Basra holds a press conference in response to the voice recording and the names contained therein

Basra's governor, Majid al-Nasrawi, responded Saturday to what he called "fabrication" of the voice recording and the names contained therein.

"As for the name of the head of the Supreme Judicial Council, Judge Faik Zidane, I actually visited him a while ago to explain to him the injustice and the circumstances of what is going on," Nasrawi told a news conference held shortly before.

"He assured me that the Iraqi judiciary does not oppress anyone and I have a firm belief that the judiciary is just and not manipulated by these pressures and media fabrications," he said.


In his talk about the energy procurement file, he pointed out that "to maintain electricity processing in the summer of 2016, which is enjoyed by the citizen visual and we have observed a real shortage in energy production for 2017 because of the end of the Turkish Bargat and problems of the Iranian line, where the shortage is estimated at about 600 MW with The technical and logistical problems in the various stations in addition to the expected increase in loads, with no new additions to the energy produced in the province, which led us to form a specialized committee to study all the rationales technically. It was headed by our technical deputy, In the province, in addition to the directors of the competent departments in different sectors, where recommended the recommendations of the Committee was sent to the Basra Provincial Council and our book No. 309 on 29 January 2017.

He pointed out that "after the oral objection of the President of the Council to the plan and the recommendations of the Committee where the figures and facts were presented different from the recommendations of the Committee concerned, we directed the Committee to reconsider its technical opinion in accordance with those data and despite the absence of any meeting of this Committee has established the Committee a technical opinion in line with the recommendations of the first And the plan was sent back to the provincial council and according to our book No. 1953 on February 28, 2017 in the hope that the provincial council will study them and has the right to reject or accept or amend them.

He stressed that "the provincial council has not held its meetings for more than four consecutive sessions and did not decide this important issue, although this plan was only needed to initial approval of the provincial council because the allocation and funding for this project is a federal as well as referral of the project so as not to enter the province by any contractual procedures to avoid any charges Has been sent to the province and therefore sent energy advisers to read a statement showing all the facts that the project funds are not from the province's funds as claimed by the President of the provincial council, but the President of the Council prevented our adviser from giving the explanatory statement to members and threatened members to refer to integrity and The prison if they vote to accept the plan and can make sure members of the subject note that it has been noted in the statement that if approved by the Council, we will ask the federal government to provide for the allocation of funding according to the approved plan and without the intervention of the province. "

He added that "the President of the Council hid all members of the official books sent by us on the subject and offered to the members during the session and the members were shaded through the issuance of a statement Ray of the Legal Committee on 18 / Missan 2017 as not to enter any financial obligations or the contract to prepare materials or Goods or services before making sure the availability of financial allocation required for that in the budget allocated and this is contrary to our request that the federal government is to ensure the allocation and funding and referral, which led to shadowing the opinion of members and not to approve the project.

He pointed out that "we have all the official priorities that prove the above and was accompanied by a large media campaign for shading and accusations of corruption in the project and the allegations from here and there I note that at the meeting of the Coordination Committee in the presence of the Minister of Electricity and the Energy Committee and governors asked the Prime Minister to form an investigative committee to search all The circumstances and allegations and misgivings raised about the project to buy energy and disable it since the first month of 2017 and so far did not form this committee and we have more detail will be presented later to the judiciary.


The governor of Basra, Majid Mahdi al-Nasrawi, issued an explanation on the referral of the energy file presented to the Prime Minister during the meeting of the Ministerial Energy Committee, to integrity, and while surprised by the statement of the Office of Abadi, so wondered how to file corruption and transmitted to the Integrity Commission did not take place Direct the project and did not spend any amount?


The ministerial energy committee, decided last Thursday, during a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Haidar Abadi, refused to hold the governor of Basra, Majid Nasraoui, on suspicion of corruption.

LINK