Jumblat Lashes Out at Negligence at State Facilities, Vows Food Safety Campaign to Continue
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat slammed on Wednesday the negligence and decay at state facilities, vowing that the food safety campaign will continue.
“The scandal that hit food storage areas at the Rafik Hariri International Airport shows that decay and negligence is affecting all state facilities,” Jumblat said a day after his aide, Health Minister Wael Abou Faour, lashed out at the “barn” and “death chambers for the citizens' health” at the facility.
Jumblat lauded the ongoing food safety campaign by Abou Faour, stressing that the “snowball has started to grow and will not stop.”
“You feel you are entering a dump when you go into the depots,” Abou Faour said on Tuesday during a joint press conference with Public Works and Transport Minister Ghazi Zoaiter.
The PSP chief wondered about the stance of the civil society and tourism institutions, restaurants and hotels from the food scandals.
“Shouldn't they at least sound the alarm over the citizens' safety?”
He considered the notorious Beirut slaughterhouse and the airport depots as “death freezers,” describing the civil society as “salons without any content.”
Abou Faour has been launching a campaign against institutions that have violated food safety standards.
His campaign has so far led to the closure of slaughterhouses, restaurants, dairy factories and other institutions.
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