Tripoli, 24 April:
Officials from Tripoli Military Council’s Homat Al-Watan (Homeland Protectors) brigade said on Monday that brigade members had returned LD . . .[restrict]485,000 after it had been discovered that double payments had been made to them.
According to a brigade source, members received government grants as allocated for all revolutionaries and at the same time received a second payment from the battalion’s accounts.
The money was paid back to the military treasury’s account.
Earlier this month, the government temporarily suspended distribution of the one-off payment of LD 4,000 for married men who fought in last year’s revolution and LD2,400 for unmarried ones on the grounds that far more people had been paid than there were revolutionaries (thuwar) who fought.
The decision provoked considerable anger among some thuwar and on 10 April a contingent attacked the prime minister’s office over the matter. [/restrict]
