Hoda Jassim (Baghdad)
The Iraqi Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia’ al-Sudani, made a series of changes and follow-ups in important parts of his government, while the High Commission for Combating Corruption continues to diagnose the defect in those joints and issues orders to arrest those responsible for this defect that causes corruption.
The media office of the Iraqi Prime Minister said, in a statement, that “Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani issued, on Tuesday, an order to withdraw the hand of Diwaniyah Governor Zuhair Ali al-Shaalan.”
The statement stated, “This came because there are investigation files against him on suspicions of administrative and financial corruption, which are being considered by the competent courts.”
And Al-Sudani had issued an order, the day before yesterday, to end the assignment of the head of the National Retirement Authority, while the Minister of Interior, Abdul Amir Al-Shammari, announced the deportation of the Director General of Public Traffic in Baghdad, due to the traffic jams in the capital.
And the Iraqi Ministry of Communications issued, yesterday, an order to relieve 5 general managers from their positions and assign their assistants to run the work of the directorates until others are assigned to replace them.
And the Supreme Commission for Combating Corruption announced the arrest of the head of investment in Salah al-Din Governorate, on the background of a “benefit request” to perform one of the work of the job.
And Al-Sudani had pledged in earlier times that “the service government is determined to close the outlets of corruption through strict laws and legislation, in cooperation with the legislative and judicial authorities.”
Dr. Ihsan al-Shammari, a professor of political science at the University of Baghdad and head of the Center for Political Thinking, considered that what al-Sudani is doing is the second stage in the issue of changes at the level of the entire government.
Al-Shammari said, in a statement to Al-Ittihad, that the 100-day deadline for combating corruption is nearing its end, and Al-Sudani needs a cadre of intellectuals to complete the government program and present the achievements in front of everyone.
According to observers of Al-Ittihad, Al-Sudani is racing against time to reach a government of services according to the criteria set in his government program, in which he pledged, after voting on it more than two months ago, to change the reality of the situation, to serve the Iraqi people, and to target the most affected groups during the years. past.
Observers point out that the 100-day deadline given by the “Sadr movement” to the Sudanese government to change the situation may go through realistic stages in replacing senior officials, including ministers, if they do not prove through their work, control over the joints of corruption, and seek to serve the Iraqis.
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