Afrinpost – Special
Private sources told the “Afrinpost” that the director of the water company in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin, who is the settler “Abdel Qader Al-Hafiz”, recently filed a lawsuit against a number of employees at the water company, who were fired later, under the pretext of being involved in an alleged financial embezzlement. Despite the fact that the reason for their separation was the Recruitment of settlers instead of the original residents of the area.
The “Afrinpost” obtained a copy of the lawsuit filed by the so-called “Al-Hafiz” against the dismissed employees at the Occupation Court in the city, where the people who were fired were working in the collection department of the Afrin Water Company.
The sources confirmed that the settler “Al-Hafiz”, who is from the city of Marea, was appointed directly by one of his relatives, called “Asmahan Jasim”, in the administration of the collection department to cover up his corruption, knowing that the real reason behind the dismissal of the Kurdish employees is their possession of documents and evidence condemning him for his involvement in financial and moral corruption cases, and this what drives him to insist on causing harm to the dismossed Kurds, who some of them left the occupied region of Afrin, while others are still there.
According to those sources, the so-called “Al-Hafiz” imports goods from Turkey through the Bab Al-Salama crossing, through written documents in the name of “Afrin Water Company”, even though these materials are poured into his own shop located in Marea city, which sells water pumps!
Since the Turkish military occupation to the Kurdish region, the occupation has kidnapped many employees of the Water Corporation, in addition to the firing of many, including the former director of the institution.
The settler director has worked to set up obstacles in front of the Kurdish employees, some of whom have tens of years of experience in the institution, in order to push them to leave work, allowing him to hire settlers instead of them, while the institution has proven its failure in carrying out its duties towards citizens in Afrin.
On April 3, 2019, the Afrinpost correspondent in the Center stated that the residents of Afrin city have been deprived of drinking water for more than a month, due to the expiration of the Bahar Relief Society contract with the occupation councils, and the judge is to provide the city’s water company with the necessary fuel to run generators and pumping devices.
The reporter added that the settler director of the water company called “Abdul Qadir Al-Hafiz” presses the employees of the company’s collection department to collect bills from the residents, despite the interruption of drinking water from the city for more than a month, noting that “collection of bills is limited to the Kurdish population only while the settlers evade Families of the armed men to pay the bills.
The reporter also stressed that the Turkish Islamic occupation militia continues to kidnap the observer of the water company, Engineer “Ahmed Osu”, and that the armed militia gunmen offered to pay his family a thousand dollars in exchange for his release, despite the fact that the current company director, the settler “Abdel Qader Al Hafiz” visited him in prison for taking information from him, about how to operate a water company as he is considered an expert .
The reporter added that the settler Al-Hafiz, and the deputy head of the local occupation council, called “Mohammed Haj Rashid,” worked on a project to expand the water company in the city with the aim of embezzlement and theft.
Likewise, in April 2019, the Afrinpost correspondent confirmed that the water company run by a settler from Marea, approved a number of large tankers to supply the city with water, after the expiry of its contract with the Bahar Relief Society, which was supplying the Maidanky dam with fuel to power generators and pumps.
The reporter added that the water company justified its inability to provide fuel due to the lack of commitment of the residents to pay the water bills, although the Kurdish residents were regularly paying their bills, but the settlers were refusing to pay the bills, in addition to the residents of the occupied city of Azaz .
