Discussion table on the phenomenon of corruption and the potential to address them

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Discussion table on the phenomenon of corruption and the potential to address them


(Independent) .. The new editorial board of culture and the office of the deputy of Saroun, secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Iraq Raed Fahmi, on Saturday, a round table at the Palestine Hotel, central Baghdad, entitled "Corruption .. Rahnip address," saw the presence To a number of concerned personalities involved, and those who have practical experience to combat the phenomenon of corruption.
The table, which was conducted by a member of the Political Bureau of the Iraqi Communist Party, Subhi al-Jumaili, discussed several and detailed legal legislation to reduce corruption and the executive procedures to address it and the mechanisms of popular control in its fight.
The head of the Financial Control Bureau, Salah Nuri, said that "the salvation from corruption needs to work organized for many years," noting "the existence of many of the measures that the SAI seeks to implement, but it always collides with many obstacles."
"The International Monetary Fund looks at corruption in different ways and addresses this phenomenon in ways of prevention and early prevention, and not only in punishing the corrupt," Nuri pointed out that "the Office of Financial Supervision sent an explanatory guide to the auditors in the ministries that we hope to benefit from."
 
Great waste
 
The head of the chamber, that "the greatest waste, was through investment projects, stressing that" more than 60 per cent of the companies dealt with by the Iraqi government is unscrupulous, and some of them have obtained work permits from countries that did not allow them to work within the donor countries to leave " .
He stressed that "the administrative side is important, as many of the projects that Iraq sought to implement are loans that have burdened the country with benefits, and that nepotism and mediation played a role in the selection of figures who received important positions in the state," stressing that some "do not have any qualifications , And most of its decisions have cost the state budget large amounts of money, without achieving tangible benefit, "while pointing out that" the solution is the legislation of the Federal Service Council to save from the phenomenon of nepotism. "
 
Corruption is rampant
 
For his part, the judge, Iyad Mohsen dammed, in his intervention, that corruption makes many bad situations and a culture of people in this regard, can not be easily eliminated.
He stressed that "Iraq has good legal frameworks to fight corruption, but it needs to be strengthened by draft laws criminalizing corruption in the private sector and private companies and banks," adding that "judicial work, face many challenges, especially in the administrative investigation, which is often Its results are contradictory, the fact that the administrative investigators are not specialists, which cost the judiciary a double effort to find out the truth.
"There are companies that adopt a single basket system and take more than one project and collect all the money and conduct it on one project in the manner that suits it, and these mechanisms lead to the completion of projects at the expense of the other, pointing out the" Launch calls to criminalize the work of these mechanisms. "
 
Global phenomenon 
 
In the context, noted a member of the Political Bureau of the Social Democratic Movement, d. "Corruption has become a global phenomenon that has been growing since the industrial revolution," he said, adding that "the reasons for the emergence of corruption in Iraq are the difficult circumstances experienced by the country at the end of the last century in addition to the bad role played by the US occupation, in the country".
Models in Dhi Qar and Basra
For his part, a member of the provincial council of Dhi Qar, Shahid al-Ghalbi, said that the anti-corruption committee in the province is unable to provide the required performance.
Al-Ghalibi added that "the police still control the province in the transfer of large projects, and the project has been referred to 67 schools to one contractor, so far, did not accomplish anything, as well as the reluctance of the province in 213 schools."
In the meantime, the member of the Basra Provincial Council, Juma al-Zini, that there are many non-governmental actors play a role in controlling the government outlets and must give greater powers to the Integrity Commission to stop these entities.
Billions of dollars lag
On the other hand, the representative of civil society organizations, Said Yassin, said that civil society provides continuous reports on issues that can be disclosed, seeking to provide preventive solutions to stop corruption.
"The value of the idle and idle investment projects is $ 360 billion, and the completed projects have suffered a 20 per cent decline. We need specialized administrative investigators, and the state contracts with the companies executed in a single format, , Calling for "the enactment of a law that criminalizes the use of political influence after the deputies of the government institutions in public."
Other interventions were Dr. Ayman al-Shammari, Adel Kanu, assistant governor of Dhi Qar and engineer Salam al-Ghazi.
Practical solutions
On the other hand, MP Raed Fahmi thanked the participants at the table and praised their practical solutions to reduce the scourge of corruption.
"The current need for the real political will to eradicate corruption depends on the seriousness of the government in dealing with the matter and stopping the reprocessing of the phenomenon," Fahmi said, adding that "the current session in the House of Representatives is better prepared than previous sessions to reduce corruption "He said. The Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Iraq, said that "the assessment budget is still submitted to the House of Representatives filled with numbers, but without detailed concrete data, which makes it difficult for the Council to deal with them," stressing the possibility of developing solutions and treatments solid to save from corruption and go to salvation from him.


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