Iraqis threaten to block an international road and topple “heads and chairs” in protest against the deterioration of electricity
Shafaq News/ Protesters from Al-Khalis district, north of Diyala, threatened on Friday to block an international road passing through the city and topple “heads and chairs” if the problem of deteriorating electricity situation in their areas is not resolved.
Ammar Al-Salami, a cleric and one of the protest organizers, said in a statement he delivered at the protest at the district center, attended by Shafaq News Agency, “The Khalis District Center and all the villages are delivering a denunciatory message during these afternoon hours that they will gather to demonstrate and block the Baghdad-Kirkuk road if it is not blocked.” A solution to the electricity problem, especially in Khalis, as the conditions of the judiciary are deteriorating at various levels.”
He added, “This is a message of condemnation. What is happening is an insult to the city of Khalis and its sacrifices that caused the officials to sit on their chairs,” threatening that “if the problem of the deteriorating reality of electricity is not solved, we will stage a massive demonstration in which the heads and chairs they are sitting on will fall.”
Al-Salami pointed out that “the demands of the people of Khalis are to cancel the whistle-stop clock, increase the share of Khalis from 100 to 130 megawatts, follow up on the employees of the electricity distribution stations responsible for the unfair programmed cut-off of the electrical current, and address poor services.”
Shafaq.com