Aoun: Some Sides Trying to Privatize Electricity Sector as They Did with Mobile Telecom. Sector
Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun stated on Tuesday that the electricity dispute in Lebanon is old, saying that some sides are seeking to exploit the issue for personal gain.
He said after the Change and Reform bloc’s weekly meeting: “Some sides are seeking to privatize the sector as they did with the mobile telecommunications sector.”
“Privatization has ruined Lebanon and they want to bankrupt public administrations,” he added.
“These administrations must remain under the control of the state,” stressed the MP.
Addressing attempts to approve the 2012 state budget, Aoun remarked: “The country is moving at a snail’s pace.”
“We refuse that our ministries remain crippled,” he continued.
He also offered his condolences to the residents who lost relatives in the Ashrafiyeh building collapse on Sunday, demanding that those behind the incident be held accountable for their actions.
In addition, he demanded the removal of the Jal el-Dib bridge over the cracks in its foundations.
“There is official and popular consensus on the need to remove the bridge and those responsible for the issue should be held accountable should any problem arise over it,” Aoun stressed.
On Sunday, 27 people were killed in the collapse of a six-storey building in the Ashrafiyeh neighborhood of Fassouh
The cabinet formed a commission of inquiry headed by Interior Minister Marwan Charbel to reveal the circumstances that caused the disaster and submit a report on collapse-prone buildings across the country.
In light of Sunday’s accident, many complaints were made about the metal bridge on the Jal el-Dib highway, north of Beirut.
Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi told Voice of Lebanon radio on Tuesday that the bridge “should be removed,” while Interior Minister Marwan Charbel later confirmed that an agreement has been reached to remove it “as soon as possible.”
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