Maysan Governor praises Hakim’s initiative concerning rehabilitating province

Maysan, Amara (IraqiNews.com) The Governor of Maysan, Ali Daway Lazim, praised “The initiative launched by the head of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council, Ammar al-Hakim, over rehabilitating the province.”

Speaking to Iraqi News (IraqiNews.com) after meeting the delegation of Hakim’s office, he said “The initiative comes to compensate the shortage of the authorities practiced by the local government of Maysan since it focuses on the agricultural side, compensating those who underwent damages of the former regimes and removing the mines near the borders.”

“This initiative is free of political affiliations and it aims at serving the people of Maysan,” he added.

For his part, the Deputy Governor said to IraqiNews.com “The allocations specified for this initiative from the revenues of Maysan Oil Company are huge and able to improve the situation in the province but the local government has to be granted the authority to supervise the projects.”

It worth mentioning that a delegation, involved professors and experts, from Hakim’s office arrived in Maysan on last Saturday to discuss implementing this initiative.

Earlier, Hakim launched an initiative to rehabilitate Maysan Province and called to compensate its people for damages resulted by the practices of the former regime.”

He assured in a speech delivered for a gathering involved intellectual and prominent figures of Maysan Province “The historical depth of Maysan makes it worthy for our concerns by legislating laws to rehabilitate it due to the damages of the wars of the former regime.”

“This initiative involves three basic sides, first is to improve the agricultural lands which were harmed due to the elimination of the marshes,” he added.

“The second is to remove the mines which are placed randomly in the province during Iraq-Iran war,” he stressed.

“The third side is taking 15% of the oil revenues of Southern Iraq to fund the project of upgrading the province,” he concluded.

Hakim launched several initiatives concerning the political, economic and social issues like his last call to consider Basra province as the Economic Capital of Iraq.