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Written By: Zaid al-Alaya’a
Article Date: Apr 8, 2008 - 8:13:18 AM
Head of the SNACC, Ahmed al-Anesi, said that taking corrupt officials to justice is a national duty he has called for cooperation from all sectors of society, including officials, NGO’s and media organizations.
The Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) discussed last Sunday with representatives of Civil Society Organizations mechanisms for creating partnerships with the authorities in the battle against corruption and how important this cooperation is to terminate the corruption prevailing in the country, said Dr. Bilquis Abu Usba, Deputy of SNACC. She said that cooperation or partnership with Civil Society Organizations is part and parcel of the authority.
Abu Usba then talked about how the authorities are working in two levels to finish the organizational and systematic structure of the authority. She also mentioned that until now, the authority has received 141 cases of corruption. Of them, 19 have been solved and investigation and inquiries are being held into the rest.
A member of SNACC, Azz al-Dien al-Asbahi, talked about the key role that CSO’s can play in the fight against corruption. A number of working papers were presented at the meeting: Dr Mohammed Mughrim’s Civil society partnership inviting corruption, Rana Ahmed Ghanem’s Activating civil society’s role in fighting corruption, Dr. Abdulaziz Mohammed al-Shuaibi’s view on how to establish better cooperation between SNACC and the CSO’s, as well as other working papers.
The case of the Yemeni students studying abroad has become an important issue in the agenda of the Supreme National Authority for Combating Corruption (SNACC) that will take serious and investigate all complaints of students studying abroad, said head of SNACC, Ahmed al-Anesi in his meeting with Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Dr. Saleh Bassurah last Saturday at the SNACC headquarter.
Bassurah assured the SNACC that issues of Yemeni students in Malaysia are to be solved in a period of a week as a step forward to look at all students cases everywhere and come with a new strategy that will make sure that the scholarship system is unified.
This meeting came after the visit that the authority paid last month to Malaysia where it received by Yemeni students and resulted in the meeting of Bassurah and SNACC stressing that all those behind violations are to be put into questioning within the frame and legal power that the SNACC has according to Anti-Corruption Law.
Al-Anesi expressed his rejection to the situation of Yemeni students abroad , insuring the authority’s cooperation with all bodies in order to remove the scholarships’ imperfections and to hold accountable those who are responsible for them.
The SNACC’s manager, pointed out the support which the authority finds from the leadership especially the president and the prime minister, in order that they can do their duties with neutrality and bravery, highlighting the positive responses they find from PM Mujawar.
A SNACC delegation, headed by the authority’s vice manager, Dr. Bilquis Abu Usba, with the authority’s members Dr. Saadadin Ibn Talib, Izaddin al-Asbahi and Mohammed al-Matari, met the students in Malaysia last month, regarding their grievances. The delegation held open meetings with the students and listened to the hindrances that they meet.