The head of the Integrity Commission stresses the importance of integrating oversight roles between the Commission and the governorate councils, and for each institution to retain its powers

The head of the Federal Integrity Commission, Judge Haider Hanoun, stressed the importance of integrating oversight roles between the Commission and the governorate councils, maintaining each institution's powers granted by the Constitution and applicable laws, and the commitment of the governorate council committees during their duty to monitor the activities of state departments in the governorates to ensure good performance by not interfering in its work and respecting the legal powers and competencies of its employees, and for its motto to be 'control without interference.' In a speech during the first forum of the governorate councils held today in the presence of Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa Al-Sudani, Hanoun called for reviewing the local legislation issued by the governorate councils in previous sessions, especially those related to collecting funds and maximizing local resources in order to abolish what was exploited for corruption or to burden hard-working citizens and waste their dignity, stressi ng the monitoring of the proper implementation of those previous and subsequent local legislations and scrutinizing the fate of the funds obtained based on those legislations from the date of their legislation and entry into force until the date of the commencement of the new governorate councils. He stressed the need to support the teams of the Federal Integrity Commission, accelerate the formation of the required investigative committees, and complete administrative investigations within the specified time limits, urging the commitment of the heads and members of the governorate councils organized in a region and those not organized in a region, the governors, their deputies, their assistants, their advisors, the mayor, and the district directors, to submit a financial disclosure statement within the stipulated dates, as it is stipulated in the amended Integrity and Profit Commission Law, and to support the central teams emanating from the governorates to implement the national strategy for integrity and a nti-corruption for the years (2021-2024). Source: National Iraqi News Agency