Nineveh Provincial Council held a session that included opening the file of preventing construction on residential lands around Mosul by influential armed groups.
A source in the Nineveh Provincial Council said that the session was held and included hosting the Director of Mosul Municipality, Abdul Sattar Al-Habou, to discuss the issue of building on residential and agricultural lands around Mosul.
The source pointed out that a verbal altercation took place between Al-Habou and Nineveh Council member Aref Al-Shabaki on the background of the session, where Al-Shabaki denied that the factions had prevented construction on those lands.
The Nineveh Council announced the formation of a special committee to follow up on the land file in Mosul, headed by Abdullah al-Nujaifi. Al-Nujaifi said that the committee will be fair to everyone and will work within a specific period, stressing that there is no political or military body higher than the state.
Mosul Municipality Director Abdul Sattar Al-Habou said that he attended the council’s hosting and discussed the issue of lands, stressing that the number of lands that are prohibited from being built on by Mosul residents exceeds 9,000 plots of land, between residential and agricultural, stressing that all of these lands are located within the borders of Mosul city and that building on them does not represent any threat or demographic change to the Nineveh Plain region as some parties claim.
