Truckers return to cut the road between Baghdad and Erbil

Truckers return to cut the road between Baghdad and Erbil


 Diyala / Hassan Shammari

Cut dozens of truckers in Diyala province, the road link between Baghdad and the provinces of the Kurdistan region, to protest against the "arbitrary measures" and operations "blackmail", by the employees of the Customs yellowish port north of Baquba, and while denied the port for any overrun by affiliates on truckers management, the leadership of the Tigris confirmed the arrest of 12 associate working on collecting money without "official receipts."
The second protest, after it pledged to the local Diyala government, last week, to respond to the demands of the first protest by truckers, the collection fee in the Customs yellowish north of Baquba, while pointed to the dissolution of the private contract plaza parking near Alkmarki port. Said Ibrahim Salim, one of the organizers of the demonstration, (range), "We have cut off the road between Baghdad and the provinces of the Kurdistan region in response to the arbitrary actions carried out by a number of staff Customs yellowish and a number of security personnel at the checkpoints along the main road in the district Khalis , north of Baquba , "noting that" cut the road as a warning to the government in the absence of implementation of our demands within 72 hours, we will completely cut off the road and we will prevent any cross the big car to and from Baghdad. " He Salem, that " the Diyala provincial council, did not abide by any of the promises he made to us, as well as bypass to speak and hands by a number of security forces and customs officials." As the Director of Customs , denied yellowish, Hamid Sabri, (range) do any of the customs officers to "overshoot hands or speak to any of the truckers and our work is limited to the collection of funds in accordance with the customs tariff applicable in all parts of the world." Sabri pointed out, that " the work of customs is limited to the collection of funds allocated through the port enter the arena , and we are not responsible to what 's going on outside the arena of blackmail or surpassed by anyone, especially the security services," adding that "we day we remove 500 trucks from the port and we are completing customs tariff ones, where up Alasivae amounts to more than one billion dinars per day through this port and all the money goes to the state treasury in accordance with the official receipts official wrote to the customs Authority. "
For his part, the commander of the Tigris Operations Lt. Gen. Mezher al - Azzawi, (range), that " the security forces arrested 12 affiliate, they collects money from truckers after the reported information about them, taking this money without receipts in the arena , which was annulled held by the Provincial Council ", he returned them" thieves and practicing blackmail on the pretext of collection has been arrested and will be subject to legal accountability according to the Iraqi law in the appropriate courts. " And staged a sit dozens of truck drivers in the district of Tuz southern province of Kirkuk, on Wednesday March 1, 2017, on the main road link between the judiciary and the capital , Baghdad, to protest the mishandling of the employees of the security yellowish crossing south of the province, as called for those responsible to visit the terminal and see the "chaos" in it , warned Daesh exploit the tensions between the people and officials and penetrate the crossing. It revealed for the Security and Defense Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, Sunday 21 August 2016, for the loss of Iraq 's $ 5 million per day because of rampant corruption in the customs yellowish site great district, north of Diyala, and accused the workers at the site to "facilitate the infiltration of terrorists and car bombs , " the province and from there to Baghdad, confirmed the formation of the security authorities a commission to investigate what is going on at the site.
The representative of Diyala in the form of the popular crowd, Uday Alkhaddran, revealed in ( the 27 of July 2016), the existence of operations of a major corruption in the customs yellowish point on the road between Baghdad - Kirkuk, controlled by security leaders and influential elements, while among the expected amounts from the point of up to about 400 billion dinars , not received by the local and federal governments, and emphasized that point leased per hour $ 30 thousand
dollars.

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