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Whoever not corrupted in Kurdistan
government and parliament, raise your hands!
1.2.2008
By Kurdish journalist Nabaz Goran. Translated by Dr. Kamal Mirawdeli |
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February 1, 2008
Kurdistan region 'Iraq': Nabaz Goran
How much was the budget for 2007? How was it spent?
How much did Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and
how much did Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) take?
Who knows how money, allocated for investment, is
spent? Why haven’t peshmargas been paid for the last
three months and people collect money for their
families in mosques? How much is the income from
Ibrahim Khalil [Turkish border point], Bashmakh
[Iranian border point] and other border points and
who snaffles this money?
Who owns the aeroplanes that are landed in the
[Erbil and Sulaimaniyah] airports and where did they
get so much money to buy aeroplanes? What happened
to cigarette, carpet and tiles factories [in
Kurdistan]? Who took them away, whereto? Why are the
journalists prohibited from visiting these
factories? Why is,www.ekurd.net
in the middle of the
street , one square metre of land is sold to a party
official for three dinars a metre and no one raises
his voice about this? Why are the petrol stations
owned by party officials? Where did they get money
to buy so many villas for themselves? Whose money
was used to build [popular Kurdish singer] Zakariya
apartments? Why have they been sold to government
officials for big amounts of money? Are government
officials entitled to buy an apartment for 160,000
dollars from people’s money?
Is there any official in this country that does not
own massive amounts of money, cars and villas? Where
have you got this money? Which minister has rented
out his house to another minister for 10,000 dollars
per month? Which minister has turned his own house
into a ministry building in order to pay himself the
rent? Every minister has 5-10 million dinars
allowances per month, what do they do with the
money? Who was the minister who spent 10 million
dinars one month for credit units for his mobile
phone? How money ministers are in Erbil but
registered Sulaimaniyah residential addresses to be
entitled to an extra 500,000 dinars per month? Who
was the minster who lost 10,000 dollars in a game of
billiard? Which ministry registered a Mulla as a
journalist in order to pay his pilgrimage costs?
Which ministry accepted to pay a tractor driver
4,800,000 dinars per month? Who was the official who
usurped the kindergarten as his private property and
no one dared to complaint? Who is that commander of
the army regiment who makes 20,000 dollars every
night from illegal smuggling? How many MPs are
driving without having driving licences and break
law? Can I mention their names? Who was the MP who
had employed his own son as his guard to give him
huge salary? Who was the Minister who received
350,000 dollars to spend for a two-day festival? How
many MPs received 130,000 dollars each for purchase
of home furniture? Which director appropriated
60,000 metres of tourism land? Which official’s son
was the man who opened a restaurant and then
illegally supplied it with electricity from a
surgery department of a hospital? The guard of which
official was registered as a film director in order
to obtain salary as an expert? Who is the MP who
speaks about corruption but he himself has
appropriated a whole hill and built five houses on
it? Who is the official who owns 60 projects in the
city each under the name of a different person? Who
was the minister who gave a 250 metre of land to a
lady for a night of pleasure? Whose minster’s guard
owns a three-floor restaurant?
Tell us how did you get all this!
These are the questions I can answer with evidence.
But I leave it to the officials themselves to answer
these questions.
Then whoever is not corrupt in government and
parliament, please raise your hands and answer these
questions!
Published on www.kurdistanpost.com, 27 January 2008,
Translated by Dr Kamal Mirawdeli, London 31 January
2008
The contents of this article reflect the author's
personal opinions
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