The Speaker of the Libyan House of Representatives, Aguila Saleh, sent a letter to a number of bodies in the Libyan state warning against public institutions and companies providing any funds to the Libyan Government of National Unity, whether in the form of a loan or under the heading of social responsibility.
Saleh attributed the reason for preventing the giving of funds to the government to the existence of monitoring reports issued from the past fiscal years showing that public money was wasted and disposed of unjustly.
Saleh stressed that violators would put themselves in front of legal responsibility on charges of negligence in maintaining public funds and wasting it in violation of the provisions of Law No. 2 of 1979 on economic crimes and its amendments.
Saleh’s speech included the Attorney General, the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, the President of the Audit Bureau, the Chairman of the Administrative Control Authority, the Chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Commission, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Libyan Oil Corporation, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Libyan Investment Authority, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Telecommunications Holding Company, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Economic and Social Development Fund, and the Chairman of the Africa Investment Portfolio Department.
This came days after the statement of the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity Abdul Hamid Dabaiba during a ceremony held in the Libyan capital Tripoli to celebrate the anniversary of the revolution of the seventeenth of February, during which he stressed that the House of Representatives caused a delay in the payment of salaries for the month of January due to the failure to adopt the general budget for this year.