Aoun: Some Sides Trying to Privatize Electricity Sector as They Did with Mobile Telecom. Sector

Michel Aoun
( 1933 - 20?? )
When Will It All End?

Did you guys know that Captain Francesco Schettino confessed that he learned so much by watching General Aoun and that modeled his actions after General Aoun's, true story.

“These administrations must remain under the control of the state,” stressed the MP.

This is against what every modern and thriving economy has done. I guess, keeping it under government control he can install his "followers" in positions and do them favors. Corruption in motion......

وقدم 24 انذارا - il reste le ministre responsable. s'il ne peut resoudre le probleme il doit demissioner (ce fut depuis toujours la theorie du general Aoun)

"The general management of the (electricity) sector is not corrupt, but those in power are."

I agree with Aoun he tells the truth, Minister Gebran Bassil the person in power and in charge of the electricity sector for four years is corrupt, very corrupt.

By the way wasn't the FPM 2005 electoral Orange book in favor of privatization of the electricity sector, did Charbel Nahass convince them the Mao's little red book was the better model.

وزير الطاقة أعطى 24 إنذاراً - how many kilo-watt

what ever you say general, what ever you say. too many zombies in this country

do the lebanese deserve that phenomen?i couldnt find another comment.

How about if the Shia simply pay for electricity instead of making the rest of Lebanon support them. Real men support their families.

They country is being bankrupted by the Shia.

The second poster is an imposter (some people really do have too much time on their hands). Anyway, Aoun is as usual correct; March 14 losers would love to get their hands on more capital; indeed, they are a bunch of filthy, corrupt fools, after all! ONE WAY TICKET!

@crookie Monster
just add "filthy zionist department" and you'll sound exactly like habal! ;)

Nice theory Oun. The while world adopted privatization and BOT strategies and you are definitely saying they are idiots. You are indeed a communist but looks like you are still living in the 80s since communism has failed and ended back in the 90s.

Well, privatize even to the devils if this will resolve the electricity problem. We are fedup with people like you. If there was no BOT, we would have had no cell phones till today!!

Please hoover after your meal ;)

... more than us slash... and for free!!

Government will never fix the electricity sector like the private sector can--all government wants from the electricity sector are the revenues so they can pay more inefficient employees in other sectors. If the government really wanted to improve the electricity service, they would actually do something to prevent theft like burying lines in theft prone areas and make sure that EDL employees are allowed assess to every building hooked up to the grid.

Aoun is an idiotic tool of Hizb anyway--his statements make less and less sense.

Government should not be involved in private business. Everything should be in private business hands, even in Lebanon you can do this if it is done in a tranparent way and give people the oppurtunity to buy shares in these companies. Government controling businesses is basically Socialism, lebanon should be a capitalist free market system.

Reform. "This is against what every modern and thriving economy has done." Privatisation of national infrastructure is not occurring in china, india, brazil or the oil rich gulf. These are the "thriving" economies at the moment. Privatisation was encouraged so that big american and western multi national corporations could buy up other countries strategic infrastructure. Now that most of these buyers are chinese gov owned companies or sovereign wealth funds, the western "thriving" economies are less enthusiastic.

However, you do need competent and uncorrupted government oversight.... something greatly lacking in Lebanon.

This is the worst Lebanese nightmare, how long you have been in charge and the power service got worst. Lebanese dont have power across the country.
War criminals will never make thing better they will make it much more complicated

How can an army general and a self-named leader of a whole community spends most of his time talking Business then anything else

In 1998 I was abducted and tortured for 3 days by the syrian moukhabarat because as students we decided to stand up for the oppression and demand that Aoun be allowed to speak and broadcasted to the Lebanese public. I jumped with Joy when I knew that Aoun is coming back to Lebanon after being exiled to France. The minute he landed I felt ashamed at what an idiot I as days pass by I feel disgusted at what a traitor Aoun turned out to be. His interest was and never will be Lebanon ... he just wants what's best for his entourage ... inno in all the FPM tayyar, there is no one more capable than his idiotic son in law? khalsouna ba2a ... kellon 2ortet nessabeen w thieves. HE is just angry that the private sector will not deal with an idiot like him and as such he wont get his cut!

ya Aoun (mesh 3am ykoun ili nafas to call u Mon General anymore) ... remember what you used to tell us: ya sha3ba Lobnan al 3azeem.
We are a great nation, much greater than some of the idiots who post here, just let us be and keep an ounce of dignity and stop insulting us on daily basis. I cry when I remember what an idol you were to many of us and what a shame you have become.
Now on the topic, nothing will make the electricity a profit earning source as long as thousands refuse to comply with the rules and pay their dues.
The mafia that are being referred to are the same mafia that are setting up their own telecom lines. Grow some grey matter and start thinking ya Cookie.

@ Slash, i once agree with what cookie said, Bachir is not the continuation of Geagea, and dont think i am with the FPM , way far from that. Bachir had a cause, charisma, conviction, leadership, bowed to no man or state, be it friendly or ennemy. Geagea is pro US and Bachir wasnt , specially when Kissinger wanted to give us as bait to the PLO and denied Bachir every right as the leader of the lebanese forces meeting with any US officials. Bachir worked a lot so that the US started understanding that a man like him is not like others, he will not bow or be broken. They accepted to see him , them made him a hero because they couldnt get rid of him and saw that he had an organised resistance and could have been useful for Israel if peace was signed. Then yet again when they saw that he wasnt going to put Israel's interest over Lebanon's , and didnt sign the treaty, they arranged with the Mossad to pull out and in coordination with the syrians, arranged his death.

@ Slash, Bachir was a legend, he was unbreakable, he lost his cousin, his daughter, and continued, visited every family of victims , even visited some Muslim lebanese officials that were against him and wounded during the war. The guy was not a saint, but whether some like him or not, or try to falsify his story, he had convictions, leadership, charisma, his words were like daggers in the heart of ennemies, and hope and strenght to his men and people of Lebanon that really wanted the Syrians and the PLO out. Geagea is not like him, will never be him , he might be organised, but he is not Bachir. Bachir's only weakness is that he wasnt scared of anything, which eventually killed him. he used to walk around the streets like if he was a nobody. he was not prudent. I blame him for letting us down like that and not protecting himself , he could have brought Lebanon to another lever.

Cookie--name something that this government does well, aside from the stealing and lying which has been going on for years by all parties. It cost the government an extra billion dollars to keep EDL running each year--sometimes you have to learn to cut your losses and move on (unless it benefits you somehow). Government has proven that it is too incompetent and corrupt to be trusted to do these tasks.

The other day I was at my grandmothers. When the power went out during a storm, my grandmother remarked on how this reminded her when she was a child and storms would knock out the electicity and she and her family would watch the lightning storm in the dark.

60 years later and guess what, NOTHING changed, and some still want the government in the electricity business.

YALLA YALLA. lebanon needs a clean up. No one knows who is the boss in this country. Like they say in the US. Too many chiefs and no indians. Each for his own and the poor lebanese is about to revolt big time. There will be more theft and crimes for survival reasons. If you cant find a job and your gov does not care what would you do? A small country that does not export anything but keeps spending will create civil wars.

@ slash dont worry habibe we were active phalangists as well, but as you know we cannot reveil names here , but we knew bachir , and pierre ( the father ) , amine , and sami personnally. My father as well was in the BG's squad, the phalangists were a lot better than the LF, the LF after that was composed of every christian they could find , although many of us had a cause, we cannot forget we had moujrimin as well and a lot of people that stole and robbed, This happened after the creation of the Lebanese forces which had fighters from Ahrar, Tanzim, 7errass el Arz, and phalangists.

@ Slash, the lebanese forces even with Bachir were no saints, but most of them had a cause. and Bachir needed every man he could get and knew how to control them better than geagea. Dont forget a lot of people that fought with Bachir defected once Hobeika and Geagea started fighting each other, i agree Hobeika was not on the good course, but the lebanese forces as we knew it, died from this day on. I dont know about today habibe, how much men Geagea can gather but one thing i know is that they aint from Ashrafieh , they are too busy showing off with daddys car, or even Jounieh and keserwan. And whether Hezbollah is wrong or right ( and i dont support them.) they are lebanese chiite, before we fought mostly palestinians and syrians. But im not ready to kill any chiite lebanese. Let our leaders kill each other for all i care, what i would do is protect my home and family and thas it.