An investigative team of COI warned that the social life circumstances of minors in Iraq are constantly getting worse due to not amending laws relating to their affairs or protecting their assets.
The investigative team of prevention office indicated in a report to the results of their visit series to the directorates of minors care. They also indicated that the valid laws are incapable of reducing the decline in the rates of social life levels for this category because of the price increasing of the daily life requirements upon the reducing of their money values due to the decline in the exchange rates of national currency.
The director general of the minors care directorate clarified that the results of the embargo years and the inflation effects reduced the value of the minors` assets existing in the minors` Fund. He also mentioned that there is a continuous communication with the government in order to approve the draft law submitted by the ministry of justice on 7th August of last year to amend some of the provisions of minors law No. 78 of 1980. The main purpose behind that is to ensure providing proper environment to protect, take care of the minors, invest and improve their assets in a way that could ensure a proper income for them.
He also stated that there are other ongoing discussions with the Central Bank to transfer the minors` deposits to gold bars after the ministry of finance refused a suggestion of revaluating these assets by gold to keep its rates from deflation.
The DG referred that the directorate of minors tried to find another investment field to secure the minors revenues by investing the fund deposits. This procedure achieved more than 187 millions ID as profits during the recent three quarters of the last year.
He expressed on his regret about many legal obligations regarding minors` category still mere ink on paper and did not activation leading to that the office was incapable of requirements compliance those under it patronage. He said that the first delayed obligations article (25) of minors` patronage law responsible to specialization monthly salary for minor who run out his money. In addition, paragraph 2 from article 24 which committed to specialization 50% of the net revenues of the local administration from patrimonies who don’t have heir, also paragraph 3 which is impose to specialization a part of public budget to support minors funds in addition to grants and aids referred to in paragraph 4 from mentioned article.
The report by COI teams, which send to ministry of justice include many of complaints submitted by minors and officials, firstly little of revenues, increase needs and delay in procedures of directorate of minors care during visiting it and absent of services in them office.
The office members said there are defects because lack of experts, specialists, efficiencies, and difficulty of realization from require documents in petitions, small location of office, crowd of petitioners, delay of offices on responding questions and inquiries.
In addition of, the investigation teams said there are many of positives things in office performance level as interest with reference to ill`s minors to ministry of health to cure them abroad of Iraq using electronic mechanism in there activity and buying the real estate to preserve value of minors money.
The teams referred to suggestions and recommendations as ensuring monthly expenditure to minors who run out their money and retarded, acceleration to amendment of valid law to help this social category and interesting to write the studies and researches about enhancing social circumstanced and treatment the minor begging phenomena, facilitating minor care office measures and providing services to their petitioners.