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New17 Aug, 23:23 BAGHDAD

Nujaba and KSS channels converge on electricity graft

WHAT HAPPENED

Between 19:51 and 20:24 this evening, Al-Nujaba TV (Nujaba — official) and iNEWS (KSS — affiliated) both ran electricity-sector corruption material. NTV's programme alleged ghost employees and contracts without delivery and carried independent politician Ibrahim al-Dulaimi saying former minister Khalid Battal had filed a lawsuit against him over an earlier episode; iNEWS ran "12 billion to buy screws" on continuing electricity corruption, a Mosul energy committee chairman mocking the appointment of a fine-arts graduate to the ministry, and a Maysan MP alleging influential parties block province residents from company jobs. Two separately owned networks carrying the same subject in the same half-hour is what supports the rung; neither confirms the other's specific allegations.

WHO CARRIED IT · EVERY MESSAGE, LINKED
  1. iNEWSKSS — affiliated/aligned media17 Aug, 22:51

    “Influential parties deprive the province's people of their right to work in the companies.”

    جهات متنفذة تحرم أبناء المحافظة من حقهم في العمل بالشركات

  2. iNEWSKSS — affiliated/aligned media17 Aug, 23:02

    “"12 billion to buy screws" — corruption in the electricity file continues and the citizen remains the biggest victim.”

    "12 مليارا لشراء البراغي".. الفساد في ملف الكهرباء مستمر ويبقى المواطن المتضرر الأكبر

  3. iNEWSKSS — affiliated/aligned media17 Aug, 23:04

    “An employee who is a fine-arts graduate was appointed to the Ministry of Electricity.”

    موظف خريج فنون جميلة تم تعيينه في وزارة الكهرباء

  4. Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official owned media17 Aug, 23:20

    “Former minister Khalid Battal filed a lawsuit against me because of a previous episode.”

    الوزير السابق خالد بتال أقام دعوى قضائية ضدي بسبب حلقة سابقة

  5. Al-Nujaba TVNujaba — official owned media17 Aug, 23:23

    “Billions for electricity in the dark — fictitious employees and contracts without delivery.”

    مليارات الكهرباء في الظلام.. موظفون وهميون وعقود بلا إنجاز

In posting order. Translated by the desk, published as evidence — not endorsement.
WHY IT MATTERS

Faction-owned television is contesting who staffs and who contracts inside a spending ministry, and the lawsuit item shows the pressure running in the other direction — a former minister using the courts against a programme guest.

THE MESSAGE IN FULL · THE DESK’S OWN COPY
View the original message (Arabic)مليارات الكهرباء في الظلام.. موظفون وهميون وعقود بلا إنجاز برنامج #جملة_مفيدة مع سالم السوداني ضيوف الحلقة السياسي المستقل إبراهيم الدليمي المتحدث السابق لوزارة الكهرباء https://sites.google.com/view/ntviraq #قناة_NTV_عراق
Kept as posted — a channel can delete a message; this copy stays.