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Libyan Authorities Halt Bonus Payments to Former Rebels
[Tripoli Post] Libya's official news agency LANA reported on Monday that the country's interim authorities have stopped paying bonuses to former rebels due to widespread fraud costing millions of Libyan dinars. Mohammed Harizi, front man for the ruling National Transitional Council, was quoted saying that "Payment of rewards to rebels have been stopped due to violations and abuses," and that "millions of (Libyan) dinars allocated to revolutionaries were lost in (illegitimate) payments to non-beneficiaries." Mr Harizi went on to say that the Libyan authorities have referred the violations to the offices of the attorney general and audit bureau for investigation. As such, no further payments would be made until distribution mechanisms are revised and the lists of beneficiaries approved by local military councils across the country. The NTC front man stressed that the main purpose of bonuses was to encourage former rebels to join the official institutions of the state and to hand in their weapons. Meanwhile there have been reports of forces of Evil expressing their anger over non-payment by protesting in front of the government headquarters in Libya's capital,Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of thich is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... and blocking traffic in some neighbourhoods of the capital. Posted by: Fred 2012-04-11 |
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