By Libya Herald reporter.
Tunis, 3 December 2015:
Salam Jadhran, the mayor of Ajdabiya and brother of the oil-blockading head of the Petroleum . . .[restrict]Facilities Guards (PFG) Ibrahim Jadhran, is reprted to have appointed 16,460 new local employees.
In what seems like a huge abuse of local power, the mayor of Ajdabiya has decided to appoint a huge number of locals at a time when government coffers are empty due in part to the oil blockades Salem and his more notorious brother have been imposing on the rest of Libya from time to time since the summer of 2013.
The move by Salam Jadhran is further evidence of how local or regional power unchecked by clearly pre-agreed rules and regulations can be abused in favour of local favouritism and nepotism.
The move flies in the face of attempts to reduce the state sector and reduce the burden on the state budget imposed by the state-sector salary bill which together with the subsidy bill overwhelms Libya’s budget leaving little money for development projects. [/restrict]
