7/22/2015
Called Deputy for the National Alliance, on Wednesday, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to convene an emergency session of the Council of Ministers to deal with the subject of electric power problem and put an end to disruption, as pointed out that the Iraqi citizens fell victim to the lack of coordination and pre-prepared between the ministries of electricity and oil. The MP said the National Alliance Haider Alfoada in a statement received (range Press), he "must-Abadi, the Cabinet put food plans to provide electricity in these days which is witnessing a rise in temperatures," noting that "the Iraqi citizens fell victim to the lack of coordination and pre-prepared between the ministries of oil and electricity. "
He Alfoada, that "these errors repeated in every year and stayed electricity file witnessing the theft of large sums of money previously what requires negligent accounting to be an example," he said, adding that "the follow-up to this file accurately has become a necessity to ensure that the electrical system of the three activities of production, transmission and distribution and the provision of fuel to produce Operating on an ongoing basis by the quantity and quality ".
The imam Juma Najaf Sadruddin Qabbanji criticized, on Friday (July 17, 2015), the central government for failing to provide electricity, and stressed that Iran "nuclear state, and you still become unable to save energy for the people", and as he pointed to the existence of "corruption" in the transactions Private electric power field.
A security source in Basra province, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), on Friday, (the 17th of July 2015), that three protesters had been killed or wounded by fire of security forces during the demonstrations broke out north of Basra, in protest against the lack of electricity, after that Demonstrators set fire to the municipal council to spend the city, while the province and directed management to form a committee to investigate the incident, the enemies of Basra accused of taking advantage of those protests.
The Basra administration announced, on Saturday (the 18th of July 2015), the formation of an investigative committee to see "saboteurs" electricity file, certain monitoring intelligence agencies of took advantage of the demonstrations witnessed by the province, (590 km south of Baghdad), while security leaders denied that be its initiative to shoot against the protesters, indicating that some people took advantage of the events to carry out acts of "sabotage" and the targeting of public property.
Iraq has suffered a shortage of electricity since the beginning of the year 1990, and increased hours of rationing electricity after the year 2003, in Baghdad and the provinces, because made a lot of stations as well as sabotage attacks on its facilities over the past years, with increased hours of power cuts for citizens to about twenty hours per day, as witnessed during the last term significant improvement as continued operating hours to about 23 hours, especially after the low temperature
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