Al-Sahwa [Archives:2007/1026/Press Review]
15 Feb. 2007
Main headlines
– Fierce confrontations in Saada, conflicting news about losses
– Its 4th conference to be held on 24 February, Qahtan: Changing the leaders whose work term expired, a matter decided by the constant system and the woman to take her right
– Al-Ahnar discusses with Saudi crown prince bilateral relations and means of bolstering them
– Teachers unions in Taiz intend to go to court
– Strikers in Aden protest to digging tombs of the victims of 13 January
– Parliamentary committee for fact-finding regarding deportees of Al-Jaashin
Writer Zaid al-Shami says in his article when we talk about disorders and financial and administrative corruption and defect in performance of the state institutions we try by that to contribute to take our country out of the state of backwardness it is experiencing. But the authority tries to convince us that there could not be better than what is done; it does rather go further than that by claiming that talking about mistakes and aspects of dereliction is just a kind of machination, biddings and lies. However, when criticism comes from an official organization, from the central apparatus of monitoring and audit affiliate, of the presidency of the republic it will be a kind of folly to neglect that and it will affirm that corruption I an institutional act having goals, supporters, plans and protection.
The monitoring annual report on the final account of the state for the year 2005 disclosed failures one of which is enough to create an administration revolution. The report explained the misuse of public revenues, non-commitment to adopted plans and randomness in implementation of different development projects in addition to inability to benefit from loans and absence of priorities as well as the danger of depending on the source of oil. The report also criticized expansion in the current spending that reached at 72% of the total expenditure in a manner incompatible with goals of financial reform.
The statement also criticized the additional appropriation for the year 2005 that amounted to 451 billions in a violation of the constitution and the law. And large part of it was allocated for expenditures having surplus in the budget.
The statement also pointed out to increase in extravagant expenditures at a rate exceeding 28% compared to the previous years at a time there was recession in spending on the sectors of education and health, in addition to disorders in the organizational, administrative and financial aspects in the local authority. The report warned that would lead to aggravation of problems and difficulties and in increase in failures.
The central apparatus for monitoring and audit also confirmed the existence of disorders in carrying out budgets of special Funds saying that estimation of revenues in the commercial sector were still characterized by randomness. It said there were negative phenomena representing a common trait in performance of many administrative units and that they were acquiring the adjective of generality. Briefly speaking, everything is not as wanted and reality says these are not the words of rancorous ones who are against the homeland insistence on following the wrong road.
The statement tried to select soft phrases and did not miss to mention some positives mentioned in a shy manner. Countries cannot be built by arrogance and blindness and it is no use to bury one's head in the ground and the authority desistance from admitting there are failures because this will not help go out of the dark tunnel.
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