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Corruption eats away at Iraq's economy:
Iraqi deputy premier Barham Saleh
4.1.2008
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January 4, 2008
Baghdad, -- Iraq's Kurdish deputy prime
minister Dr Barham Saleh said on Thursday that the
financial and administrative corruption are eating
away at Iraq's growth and economy, citing 71
inspectors who have been assassinated, wounded, or
kidnapped since 2003.
"Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki diagnosed the
financial and administrative corruption as a serious
challenge facing the government.www.ekurd.net
Hence this meeting was
held to launch a national mobilization campaign that
aims at uprooting this epidemic," Barham Saleh said
in a speech during a meeting of the National
Assembly for Fighting Corruption, held in the Iraqi
capital on Thursday.
"Political imbalances in the country are
demonstrated in the sectarian quota system and
partisan nepotism in ministries and other
governmental institutions," Saleh indicated. |
Dr. Barham Saleh Iraq's deputy premier |
Shedding light on another aspect of the problem, the
deputy premier explained that corruption feeds off
terrorism and violence, highlighting the
government's role in enacting laws and legislative
items, which he said will help curb corruption and
malpractice in the country.
"The government has to take a range of measures of
transparency and accountability…," Saleh said,
calling on Iraq's Commission on Public Integrity
(CPI), the Financial Monitoring Committee and the
Iraqi parliament to coordinate with authorities
concerned with accountability and supervision.
The meeting was attended by several
parliamentarians, ministers,www.ekurd.net
governmental inspectors,
the head of the CPI, and the head of the Financial
Monitoring Commission.
VOI
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