DustiB: Well now boys….I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer,,,,but……..Do we love Sadr, or what?
Zerb: well this should do well for tonight’s conference call we all know what this means obviously there must be a rate praise be to the Lord…we could write a book!
Dnari131: Sadr wants Iraqis to get a share from country’s oil revenues
BAGHDAD, MARCH 21
Influential Iraqi Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, leading protests to demand a technocrat government to fight graft, urged authorities on Monday to give every Iraqi a direct share from the nation’s oil revenues.
Iraq, with crude oil reserves among the largest in the world, ranks 161 out of 168 in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index in 2015.
“Allocate a share for each Iraqi citizen from the oil revenues,” he said in a speech detailing proposals to end graft, improve public services and revive the economy. He gave no detail on how this might be done.
Sadr’s followers have been staging protests for about a month demanding a new government be formed with technocrats not affiliated with political parties in order to fight rampant corruption.
The cleric didn’t specify if his demand on distribution of oil revenue to the population was a condition to end the protests.
(Reporting by Saif Hameed. Writing by Maher Chmaytelli; editing by Ralph Boulton)
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Walkingstick: Muqtada al-Sadr calls to give all Iraqis a stake in the country’s oil revenues,
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called the cleric Moqtada al – Sadr, on Monday, March 21 / March, the Iraqi government to give all Iraqis a stake in the country ‘s oil revenues.He called al- Sadr, to expedite the formation of specialized committees to enact laws that the economic and financial system reform and its institutions, he said.
on the political side, al- Sadr said he has to be the stability of the national decision to maintain the prestige of the state, and the enactment of the law which prohibits the “dictatorship parties, led by the Baath Party, and other terrorist parties are banned.” he also called for the preservation of Iraq ‘s unity and activating the role ofcitizenship, and to focus on dialogue to resolve problems, and re -examine and audit of some articles of the Constitution and its paragraphs,
stressing the independence of the independent bodies and non – interference affairs , such as the Office of Huq Rights and theelectoral Commission and the Central Bank and the Office of financial supervision. In the economic sphere, al- Sadr called on to support theagricultural, industrial and tourism private sector sector, and encourage the Iraqi product, and the exploitation of labor Iraqi working.
He stressed the need to encourage private investment, and the quota foreach Iraqi citizen from oil revenues. with respect to services, demanded the leader of the Sadrist movement to work to raise the level ofeducation and keep it free of charge, and to improve water and electricity services, and activation of health insurance and improve thehealth level. Turning the chest to the importance of focusing on Iraqi women and people with special needs, the cultural side of the country, demanding the return of stolen Iraqi antiquities.
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