Mosul is awaiting a government committee to restart the work of 199 stalled service projects

[size=52]Mosul is awaiting a government committee to restart the work of 199 stalled service projects[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Tamim Al-Hassan[/size]
[size=45]Nearly 200 projects are suspended in Nineveh due to lack of funding, while officials in the governorate squandered about a trillion dinars during the post-liberation years.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, Baghdad began forming a "supreme committee" for the reconstruction of Mosul, which this time will be headed by Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi, but until now it is not known where this committee will be funded? According to statistics, there are about 70,000 houses destroyed in Nineveh, 15,000 of them in the Old City only.[/size]
[size=45]The massive destruction of the governorate after the control of ISIS, in addition to the fierce war that lasted 9 months to remove it, caused the percentage of destruction in some areas to reach 100%, as is the case in some neighborhoods in the heart of the right coast of Mosul. In July 2017, former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the complete liberation of Nineveh from ISIS control.[/size]
[size=45]Scarcity of funding[/size]
[size=45]"The failure to rebuild Nineveh throughout those years was due to the scarcity of funding and the reluctance of some contractors," said Qusay al-Shabaki, a deputy from Nineveh.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Shbaki confirmed that "199 service projects, including roads, hospitals and bridges, have been suspended for years due to lack of funding."[/size]
[size=45]Statistics provided by local officials and international organizations obtained by Al-Mada indicate that the damage to the right coast in Mosul is more than 95%. In September 2017, the House of Representatives voted to consider the districts of Mosul and Tal Afar as disaster areas.[/size]
[size=45]ISIS destroyed about 72 bridges and bridges in Nineveh, including 6 principalities, in addition to destroying 26 medical buildings, including 9 hospitals in Mosul out of the 13 hospitals in the city.[/size]
[size=45]And 90% of the left coast streets were destroyed by the battles and mortar shells that were used by ISIS.[/size]
[size=45]The damage to the roads caused major damage to the buried water, communications and electricity network.[/size]
[size=45]On the other hand, 60% of government buildings were destroyed in eastern Mosul, and al-Salam and al-Khansa Hospital were also severely damaged, with 70%. While all health centers were out of service. The security institutions and police stations were 100% destroyed, while the destruction rate in school buildings reached 30%. The events and battles there affected nearly 2,000 schools, including 70 schools that were razed to the ground, at least half of them in the Old City.[/size]
[size=45]Reconstruction costs[/size]
[size=45]The governor of Nineveh, Najm al-Jubouri, confirmed that the sums allocated to rehabilitate what the war destroyed in the governorate exceeded its annual share of the budget by more than 30 times.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Jubouri added in a press statement a few days ago, "Experts estimated the size of the damage at $ 15 billion as a minimum, but Nineveh's budget reaches at best half a billion or a little more." Last year, Al-Jubouri revealed that the Fund for the Reconstruction of Liberated Areas in Nineveh had allocated 109 billion dinars within the fund’s plan to implement 80 projects within the governorate.[/size]
[size=45]During the post-liberation years, some MPs revealed documents sent from the Finance Ministry according to which, since 2016, the governorate has received more than 408 billion dinars in the operational and investment budget, excluding the salaries of employees.[/size]
[size=45]In addition to these sums, other sums arrived to the governorate during the same period under the heading of what is known as "stability sums".[/size]
[size=45]MPs said earlier to (Al-Mada) that "these funds are funds transferred from the budget of the Ministry of Immigration in favor of supporting stability in the provinces that were occupied by ISIS." In the 2019 budget, the stabilization amounts were 460 billion dinars, 130 billion of which went to Nineveh alone. According to the information received by Al-Mada, the stability sums that were sent to Nineveh in 2018 were 180 billion dinars, and in 2017, 100 billion, while the exact amount that was granted to the governorate in 2016 is not known, but according to some estimates, it is not less than 100 billion. Dinar.[/size]
[size=45]A great debate revolved around the doors of spending those sums compared to the actual achievements on the ground in the era of the former governor, Nawfal Al-Akoub, who was sentenced last February to five years in prison for corruption cases.[/size]
[size=45]In addition, a statement by the judiciary confirmed, at the time, "the continuation of the investigation with Al-Akoub in more than 15 other investigative cases."[/size]
[size=45]High commission[/size]
[size=45]A government source revealed, on Tuesday, that the Prime Minister, Mustafa Al-Kazimi, had directed the formation of the Supreme Committee for the Reconstruction of the City of Mosul.[/size]
[size=45]The source said, in a statement carried by the official agency, that “Al-Kazemi directed the formation of the Supreme Committee for the Reconstruction of the City of Mosul,” indicating that “in the Diwani order it was stated that the aforementioned committee will start its work under the leadership of Al-Kazemi and with the membership of ministers Finance, planning, reconstruction, housing and municipalities, the director of the Prime Minister’s office, the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, as well as the President of the National Investment Commission, the President of the Reconstruction Fund for Liberated Areas and the Governor of Nineveh.[/size]
[size=45]Qusay al-Shabaki, a representative from Nineveh, said, "These developments came after the Pope's recent visit to Iraq."[/size]
[size=45]The Governor of Nineveh, Najm al-Jubouri, said earlier that Pope Francis had promised to support the file for the reconstruction of Mosul. The Pope’s visit last month to Mosul, once again highlighted the devastation that befell the city.[/size]
[size=45]"Budget funds are usually not sufficient for regular projects, but the formation of a higher committee headed by Al-Kazemi may mean that there are funds coming from outside for the reconstruction of Mosul," Al-Shibki added.[/size]
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