AMMAN — Representative Ali Al-Khalayleh confirmed on Wednesday that Prime
Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh had summoned former
Audit Bureau head Assem Haddad
and asked him to resign from his post, Jo24 reported.
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Khalayleh
said during a Lower House session, at which a preliminary discussion on the
Audit Bureau report for 2021 took place, that the former head of the Audit
Bureau had been about to travel as part of an official delegation, but before
the flight date, he was summoned by Khasawneh and asked to resign. Khalayleh
had personally verified this information, he noted.
The Lower
House, he said, “should not be complacent” concerning its right to monitor the
government, as reports from the
Audit Bureau of misuse of public funds increase every
year. He called on those present to question Haddad about the reasons for his
resignation.
Pointing
to a case reported in a previous Audit Bureau report, he said: "It is
inconceivable that an employee is paid JD250,000 from two ministries without going
to work a single day.”
"It
cannot be right that the head of the
Audit Bureau is appointed upon the
recommendation of the Prime Minister," he added.
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