Baghdad's provincial Legal Committee revealed that it has stopped a financial waste estimated at 180 billion dinars in a project regards the setting of 18 security checkpoints in the capital.
Sabar al-Saadi, Chairman of the Committee told "Shafaq News", that "Baghdad government planned to finance the construction of 18 local checkpoints in different districts of Baghdad, at a cost of 216 billion dinars and by 12 billion dinars for each checkpoint".
"After investigation and inspection on the cost of checkpoints we found that a checkpoint doesn't cost more than two billion dinars in best cases," He explained. "so we decided to stop the implementation of the project and the formation of a committee from the Council to reconsider it".
The cost of all checkpoints is 2 billion means 36 billion dinars for each checkpoint so there is a surplus in the allocated amount by 180 billion Iraqi dinars.
According to Saadi, these checkpoints consist of caravans with a camera surveillance system.
Baghdad council decided earlier to build 18 typical security checkpoints at the entry points to the capital.
Iraq suffers deterioration in the security situation since the withdrawal of American troops at the end of 2011; some people fear the return of the situation back to the days of sectarian fighting in 2006 when hundreds of thousands of people died.
© Shafaq News 2013
