The administration of Vegetable Oil State Company holds responsible ministry of trading and ministry of planning the most failure in lagging the production in its factories and obstructing it`s enhancing and developing it to satisfy the needs of local market.
The director general for the company Mohamed jaafer criticized ministry of trading ignoring the production of company to ensure the food ration items, "the ministry of trading goes resort to import from abroad to ensure the food ration items nevertheless publications of cabinet preventing importation items which it have local alternative" He said in dialogue with investigative team from COI.
Jaafer has said that this fact applied to many ministries and state bodies in there dealing with the company production despite assigning marketing coordinator to communicate with this entities and repetition of official correspondences of this matter.
He clarified that the accumulation production and decreasing the sell had reflected on the financial ability of company and decreased the currency flow and diverted from ability to ensuring raw material, implemented of its plans, updating programs, developing, expand or maintenance.
He indicated there is unfair competition between the products of company and imported products, he said: raise the cost of products of company belonged to submission of regulations of central organization for standardization and quality control unlike the external alternative which is entered to the country without observation, binds or quality standard in spite of resolution was issued in early July last year prevented import without certification and imposing custom fees upon foreign goods.
Planning section manager in company Hana Hatem Shaheen criticized ministry of planning in view of not interference to prevent flow of foreign goods. She said in here speech to investigative team belonged to transparency and job performance section in COI: the ministry of planning didn’t take in its consideration the scientific and digital standard to determine the real needs of country of imported goods.
She indicated that leaving Iraq restricted with seventh item sanction of UN charter issued1990 would prevent the company to opening of letters of credit in external banks to import raw material used in products of company or spare parts for the machines and factories equipments.
On the other hand, Hana felt sorry for inability of the ministry of electricity to ensure the real needs factories of company, she mentioned that the ministry was responded for letter of company temporary and then equipped it according to program cut schedule.
Manager of planning section in company urged the ministry of agriculture pay the at most important in its productive plans for industrial crops like son flower which is considered the main material in manufacturing vegetable oil.
The investigative team in COI was recorded many observations though field tour in factories of Vegetable Oil State Company like; Al- Rasheed factory was completely out of work because of lack of demand for products from ministry of trading or local marketer while there are a lot of imported types from deferent origin.
The team mentioned that the real situation of Al- Rasheed and Al-Fraby factory still without any substantial change in manner of production or work while Al-Mamoon factory witnessed secondary renewal like soap packing machines and vialing of powders. they said, that utilities of al-amen factory work in very low capability of production in spite of renewal its equipments and production lines.
