By Libya Herald reporter.
Ghariyan, 2 April 2015:
Fuel shortages, a lack of cash at banks and interruptions of communications services were some . . .[restrict]of the common problems discussed by the mayors of several Jebel Nafusa towns at a meeting in Ghariyan.
The mayors of Ghariyan, Nalut, Jadu, Wazin and Kabaw, as well as other representatives from the mountain towns, attended the meeting.
Mayor of Nalut Adel Askar said that his town suffers from fuel and water shortages, interruption of cellular services and liquidity problems at the banks. The fuel shortages have lasted, he said, over six months. As for cellular services, Al-Madar has not worked at all for more than a week and Libyana’s service is frequently interrupted. Askar also mentioned that Nalut residents face frequent harassment at security checkpoints.
According to Askar, the meeting decided to form a crisis committee, tasked with finding solutions especially to the fuel and water shortages. Askar also said that the mayor of Ghariyan proposed the submission of a formal demand to the Ministry of Water Resources to provide upgrades to water supplies reaching the mountain towns.
Askar added that he has personally visited the General National Congress (GNC) and the offices of the National Salvation Government “more than 20 times” in an attempt to convince the authorities to address problems in Nalut and the other mountain towns, but to no avail.
Jadu mayor Saeed Al-Badrani said that he believed that the meeting had included several positive steps, such as the coordination between various security checkpoints to allow fuel trucks to move through the region and to ease inspections of civilian vehicles.
Badrani pointed out that he found this local agreement especially encouraging in light of the failure of the GNC and the National Salvation Government to help the Jebel Nafusa since it took control in Tripoli last August.
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