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| Afghanistan | |
| Kabul Mayor Runs the City Despite Prison Sentencing | |
| 2009-12-11 | |
| [Quqnoos] Kabul mayor, Abdul Ahad Sahebi, still runs the Afghan capital despite being sentenced to four years imprisonment for grafts. The mayor was sentenced to jail after he was found guilty on Monday of awarding a contract for a city project without competition. He was also ordered to repay the $16,000 delivered for the contract.
Try that one next time you get a traffic ticket. The decision comes days after Karzai pledged to fight the rampant corruption in the Afghan government, as he comes under intense pressure from the international community to take strong measures against misappropriation of funds in Afghanistan. Mr Sahebi also said that he asked President Karzai, MPs, the Attorney General and the head of the Supreme Court to launch an inquiry into this case. Meanwhile, UN officials in Kabul said that it was tremendously important for the new government to fight the corruption. "I believe this is tremendously important that the new Afghan government, when in place, makes it clear that there is a determined nation to fight corruption on the broad basis," Kai Eide, UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan, told a news conference on Wednesday. "It is important, not only for the fighting of corruption today, but it is important for setting the values of the young generation," he said, "if they see that corrupt practices continue to be accepted then it will have important negative impact on the values that these young generation base their life in the future on it." Earlier, US President Barack Obama called on his Afghan counterpart to stem corruption within six months or risk losing international support. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 marion berry should run against him |
| Posted by: 746 2009-12-11 13:24 |
| #1 What's the big deal. Similar things have happened in DC, Detroit and Baltimore... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-12-11 11:12 |