CoI Commissioner: Marja’ya’s support to oversight bodies is a foundation they depend on and a motive to further make successes in the field of combating corruption
Stressing the continued support of the Marja’ya to oversight bodies, Sistani’s Representative calls for empowering oversight bodies by filling the legal gaps corruption passes through
CoI Commissioner Judge, Izzat Tawfiq Jafar, met with the representative of the Sistani the supreme religious leader in Karbala, Sheikh Abdul Mahdi Al-Karbala’i, and discussed the most important challenges facing the work of oversight bodies and ways of Marja’ya’s support for the national anti-corruption system.
During the meeting, which was attended by the Directors-General of the Legal Prevention Offices, the Assistant Director-General of the Investigation Office as well as the staff of the Commission`s Investigation Office in the governorate, presented CoI’s future steps and work strategy for the coming years.
He referred to the completion of CoI’s directorates and offices of investigation in all governorates to identify the lagging projects in those provinces, stressing that next year will witness the determination of negligence and accountability of those who cause the lagging to such service and investment projects.
Judge Jaafar regarded the Marja’ya’s support to the work of the oversight bodies institutions, especially CoI, in its fierce war against corruption and corrupters, as the foundation CoI relied on and a motive to provide more successes and unprecedented steps in the fight against corruption, explaining that the project against corruption is a state project that should be shared by everyone from the institutions of the State and the three presidency to community organizations and the media, and indicating that CoI’s Office of Investigation in the holy province is a model from the organizational point of view and work methodology, and “we seek to simulate its experience in all CoI’s directorates and offices,” he added.
Sheikh Al-Karbala’i stressed during the meeting in which he gathered with CoI’s delegation in his office at the Holy Shrine of Imam Hussein that Marja’ya’s support to CoI’s efforts, pointing out that this support is continuous represented in the anti-corruption sentences in many of the preaching during Friday prayers and the true will to fight corruption, and through enabling CoI and other oversight bodies by filling the legal gaps through which corruption passes.
He pointed out that the Marja’ya has set the correct and sound foundations for the selection of the government officials and the effective administrative bodies for running the state, which represents a practical step to fight corruption, pointing out that the mismanagement and the existence of some laws that have legitimized corruption is one of the aspects that are now decaying the body of the state and preparing a fertile ground for corruption.
The visit of the delegation to the two holy shrines included the meeting with the Secretary of the Al-Abbas Holy Shrine, Mohammed Al-Ashayqar, a dialogue on the issue of combating corruption as well as the means of supporting the oversight bodies by various social activities, especially clerics and preachers, identification of the most important needs and challenges of CoI’s investigation office in the governorate and meeting with its staff, and to provide solutions that would speed up the work of the office, which initiated an investigative case in every project in the governorate as one of its steps towards dealing with the lagging projects in the governorate in order to identify the negligence and the percentage of completion and waste of public money in each case.
Noteworthy to mention that CoI announced on the 27th of this month the total lagging projects in the governorate of Karbala, indicating that they amounted to (274) projects at a cost estimated at five billion dinars.
