Editor: NK | BR Monday 08 August 2011 20:15 GMT
Alsumaria News / Baghdad
Confirmed leader of the coalition of state law Izzat Shabandar, Monday, that the minister of electricity known as "integrity" does not bear the responsibility of contracts of electricity with the two Canadian, German, and considered that the statements by a spokesman for the Iraqi on the electricity contract with Korea is a political war, noting that the contract Korean canceled due to Disclaimer Company from its obligations.
Shabandar said in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Electricity Minister Raad waterfall is not responsible for the electricity contracts with the Canadian and German companies or the responsibility of the imbalance in the contract with them."
The Shabandar that "the Prime Minister did not mention that he fired the minister of electricity not to his integrity," he continued by saying "may be He (Maliki) other reasons, or to imagine another reason dismissal, which will affect also other ministers in the process of Limbering," he says.
According to Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani told a news conference, the Minister of Electricity and still carry out his functions, indicating that the dismissal of the minister is a matter approved or rejected by Parliament.
Shabandar and take a close associate of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that "the defense minister was politicized by the list (of Iraq) does not help him does not help the bloc, rather it is to charge political opponents."
And give Iraq since the removal of its minister on the mechanism of Declaration, which affirms that Parliament alone to sack the Minister, confirmed on Monday to San spokesman Haidar al-Mulla said in an interview for "Alsumaria News" that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is to blame for the electricity crisis over the past years, They pointed out that the Prime Minister also signed my contract, which accused them of electricity and electricity minister, saying at the same time that the contracts signed by Maliki in Korea is also a fake.
Commented Shabandar on charges of Iraq as a "devastating sand eye through the statements of its spokesman, when he said that the contracts signed by Maliki in Korea and a fake, a form of political warfare," and urged the Iraqi spokesman Haidar al-Mulla to "bear the responsibility for authorizing and rush haphazardly" .
The Shabandar that the "Contract with Korea and realistic passed phases legal institutions of the ministry and perhaps most important of the Committee on Energy headed by Hussein al-Shahristani," but he added, that the imbalance in the contract, "specifically borne by the Korean company."
He explained that "the company violated the processing of what it committed itself under the contract signed by the Prime Minister and states that it will be made to the important parts of the plants," and added that when you start or close of the contract "avoided the company's commitment."
Iraq has signed with the company as T-X, South Korea, on the eighteenth of May this year a contract by about three billion dollars to set up 25 stations are oil-black is distributed to a number of provinces to generate 2,500 megawatts of electricity during a period of 10 months, to be added to the national grid, which suffers pressure in the Alastelak especially in summer, and came as a result of signing the contract agreement, conducted by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki with the company during his visit to South Korea in the same month.
And Shabandar that "the flaw in a Korean company can not bear the minister is known for integrity and competence do not bear the prime minister who pulled into the subject for political purposes, or deputy prime minister, because imbalances bear the company," pointing out that "the minister canceled the contract or stopped by to instruct him by the Deputy Prime Minister to stop the contract because it realized that the company began to repudiate its commitment. "
A source in the Prime Minister's statement, on Sunday (7 August 2011), Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered the dismissal of the Minister of Electricity Raad waterfall on the back of a recent contracts and fake with two German and Canadian value of up to one billion and 700 million states, detected by chance and the Minister Iraqi Planning Jawad Hashim, former and sent the details in a letter to Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at the end of last week.
And announced that the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, on Sunday the seventh of August, it will take the initiative to book the Minister of Electricity article Raad waterfall which he belongs, on the contracts concluded with fake companies, stressing that the issue of these contracts worth response and accountability by all the political blocs, while the accused the coalition of state law, led by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's political parties involved in the issue of contracts and the Ministry of Electricity and fake companies, while near the expected announcement of the files other corruption, he stressed that the oversight role of Parliament is enabled as required.
Raad waterfall belongs to a cluster solution, headed by Jamal al-Karbouli, a resident of Jordan, who was wanted by Interpol on charges of embezzling money from the Red Crescent Society in 2008 and dropped the charges against him in (01/03/2011) for lack of evidence.
The CV to the minister article was relieved from his post as an adviser to the Minister of electricity during the year 2008, due to personal differences with the former Inspector General Saadi, Sudan, to come back an expert in the Directorate General of electrical power production projects, to assume the position of electricity minister after his nomination by the Iraqi List, and a vote of Parliament on 13 February last.
The country has seen since mid-February, many of the protests against the deterioration of services, particularly electricity and long hours of power cuts to about 20 hours a day and more especially after the summer season, which now see when Iraq is consuming large to run air conditioners to cool the air temperature, which exceeded last week, the threshold 51 degrees Celsius.
The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, vowed in the 17 of February, to end the electricity crisis in the country within a period not exceeding 15 months, in a series launched by the pledges in response to the protest movement witnessed by the vast majority of Iraqi cities on 15 February
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