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Salaries not 'in safe hands', say Gorran and Komal |
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3/20/2018 2:03:11 AM |
The two blocs of Change Movement and the Islamic Group in the Iraqi parliament on Monday sent a letter to Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, ministers and members of the federal parliament, calling on Abadi to force the government of Kurdistan to pay full salaries of other sectors' employees.
In a joint press conference on Monday, the Change Movement (Gorran) and Kurdistan Islamic Group (Komal) criticized the Erbil-Baghdad agreement on distribution of the region’s salaries based on the unpopular salary saving system.
“We convey to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, ministers and members of parliament, a message bearing the suffering of tens of thousands of employees of Kurdistan, everyone knows the amount of the tragedy and suffering of the people of Kurdistan, which reached the maximum. In the past, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi promised several times that the Kurdistan Region civil servants will be paid as equally as Iraqi employees and thus he began forming committees to audit payroll lists of the education and health ministries,” Amin Bakir, an MP from Gorran in Baghdad, told reporters in Sulaimani’s Iraqi Parliament office on Monday.
“After the auditing finished, we suggested for their wages to be directly handed to the civil servants themselves without any deduction and in full,” he added.
In addition to the sum Baghdad has sent, Bakir said the KRG could pay the remaining government sectors without needing to rely on the saving system.
He claimed the money should not have been sent to the KRG as it will not be “in safe hands.”
He urged Abadi “to adhere to the pledges he made in which the [Kurdistan] Region’s employees will receive their salaries directly from Baghdad.”
“If there is any agreement between Baghdad and Erbil at the expense of the people of Kurdistan, civil servants and their salaries, we will investigate against any agreement done in this regard,” the Gorran MP added.
He said they would raise their objections with the Iraqi government.
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