By Hassan Benadad on 03/21/2022 at 11:00 p.m.
Abdellatif Ouahbi, Secretary General of the WFP.
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Kiosk360. Justice Minister Abdellatif Ouahbi accused successive PJD governments of squandering public funds and adding to the state’s foreign debt. Islamist leaders returned the favor. This article is a press review of the daily Assabah.
The agreement that linked the general secretary of the PAM, Abdellatif Ouahbi, to the boss of the PJD, Abdelilah Benkirane, was broken after the minister of justice accused the Islamist government of mismanagement of public finances. The daily Assabah reports, in its edition of Tuesday, March 22, that Ouahbi affirmed that the PJDists have, for ten years, wasted public funds and undermined the country’s treasury with the burden of foreign debt. He thus fired red balls at the leadership of the Islamists and the ministers in the successive governments of Benkirane and El Othmani.
Abedllatif Ouahbi accused them of mismanagement of special accounts and delays in development projects which affected the state treasury and the budgets of territorial councils. Worse still, he adds, “the external loans that the Islamist government had contracted constitute a heavy mortgage on the future of the country which could only regain a balanced budget in 18 years”. The head of the PAM carried out this orderly attack against the management of the Islamists during his speech last week before the party’s elected officials in Marrakech.
The daily Assabah reports that the elected PAMists complained of having found the coffers empty because “the elected PJD would have spent all the budgets of the communal councils, the provinces and the prefectures and left them only debts”. As a result, they add, they will find it difficult to carry out the development projects they had promised their constituents.
The Islamists’ response was quick to come through the former Minister of Employment and Secretary General of the Chabiba of the PJD, Mohamed Amekraz, who declared to his peers: “PJD members are annoyed by the inappropriate exits of Abdellatif Ouahbi who spends his time rehashing the ten-year management of the PJD. I tell him that you shoot with empty cartridges while you occupy a position of responsibility within the government. Moroccans expect solutions from you to the problems they are enduring instead of hearing you criticize previous governments”.
For his part, the president of the national council of the PJD, Driss El Azami, affirmed that “his party has left funds in public finances despite the repercussions of the pandemic”. And the ex-minister defied the government coalition by asking it “to restore compensation for hydrocarbons which cost 4 billion dirhams” by swearing that “the Executive is incapable of saving such a sum”.
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Par Hassan Benadad
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