MOSUL TIME RADIO
A member of the Nineveh Provincial Council revealed – to Mosul Time Radio – that the Council rejected a request from the Nineveh Governor to extend the head of the current Investment Authority, and that the Council took a decision to open nominations for the position for a period of 3 days starting tomorrow, May 7, and ending at the end of May 9. .
The Governor of Nineveh, Abdul Qadir Al-Dakhil, had submitted a request to the Provincial Council to replace a number of department directors and support others. Al-Dakhil indicated during his attendance at the 11th session of the Provincial Council that there are departments that have been robbed of their will due to not being given powers, such as the Investment Authority.
He pointed out that the Investment Authority is completely dysfunctional due to the lack of an administration with full powers, indicating that this issue will be resolved soon because there is a real will on the part of investors to invest in vital and development projects in the governorate.
The council member – who preferred to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the situation – added that “some members of the provincial council refused to extend the term for the current head of the Investment Authority,” stressing that “the position will go to party quotas and what is decided by political consensus within the council.”
He pointed out that the Council “moved with the majority of its members to open the door for nominations for the position of Chairman of the Investment Authority after rejecting the request of the Governor of Nineveh to extend its current chairman.”
But the council member came back and confirmed that “the nomination process will be a formality and candidates from the parties and blocs in the council will apply for the position, and in the end the council will go to vote on whoever gets the consensus between the blocs,” noting that “there are a number of names proposed by the parties to fill the position.”
It should be noted that the majority of the members of the Nineveh Governorate Council affiliated with the Coordination Framework Alliance rejected the extension for the current head of the body and demanded that nominations for the position be opened after the governor’s request was rejected.
It is noteworthy that the Nineveh Investment Authority has been suffering from an administrative vacuum for more than 40 days, after the legal authority of its current president expired on March 25, following the end of his assignment from the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, and the latter’s request to the Provincial Council to open nominations for the position.
