Mustafa Sand indicates violations in the allocations of Al-Sudani’s office: He used the emergency budget in his favor

Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mustafa Sand, pointed out, on Tuesday, violations in the allocations of the office of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani within the 2024 budget tables.

Sand told Shafaq News Agency, “We noticed that the allocations for the Prime Minister’s Office have more than one aspect. The first aspect is the increase in allocations and the transfer of allocations in other sections for the purpose of reducing the form in front of the tables, especially the funds, the development fund, and others.”

The second violation, according to Sand, “is in spending, especially in the emergency budget,” adding, “We have a report from the Financial Control Bureau that proves about 80% of the violations in the mechanisms for spending the emergency budget.”

Sand criticised “spending three billion dinars on renovating the guest house”, pointing out that “the allocations for the Red Crescent, camps and some projects have a political and electoral aspect”.

He pointed out that “the emergency budget is for emergency events such as fires, floods and disasters, but what happened was additional spending for the Prime Minister’s Office in full view of all political blocs.”

Sand added, “The financial expenditure for the emergency budget last year reached 150 billion dinars, while this year it did not exceed 50 billion dinars.”

He explained that “the disbursement rate in the Development Fund was 1% in 2023, and the government punished the governorates that disbursed 30%.”

Shafaq.com