Public Money Protectors Warn of “New Cries of Looting Public Money” Within Local Authorities

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The Moroccan Association for the Protection of Public Money warned of what it called “new methods and trends of looting public money” within local communities.

According to what the association reported on the tongue of its president, Mohamed Al-Ghloussi, “some community leaders are working harder to find legal cover to accumulate wealth, at the expense of the interests of the residents,” noting that they “preside over communities that lack ambulance service, and villages that do not have roads and paths.”

Al-Ghoulousi explained in a post on his personal page on the social networking site “Facebook” that “there are isolated groups whose people suffer from thirst with the drought crisis, at a time when their elected officials are programming festivals under different names in partnership with associations that are nothing but a front for and to these elected officials.”

Al-Ghloussi accused these elected officials of “inflating the amounts allocated to cover the expenses and costs of these festivals, so that they can seize a large part of them,” noting that “this terrible waste of public money occurs despite the issuance of circulars by the Ministry of the Interior calling on officials of local communities to rationalize expenditures.”

The same speaker stressed that “one cannot be against art, culture and festivals (…) but that some elected officials seek to legitimize the squandering and embezzlement of public money under the pretext of “organizing festivals” at a time when the districts and regions affiliated with the groups they manage are facing various problems, including the thirst crisis in a hot summer, is moral and human bankruptcy, and it even amounts to the crimes of squandering and embezzlement of public money,” according to his expression.

At the end of his post, Al-Ghouloussi wondered whether the Ministry of Interior would intervene to punish the concerned elected officials and prevent the continued waste of public money in the aforementioned groups.