Transparency Maroc marks anniversary
2006-05-14
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Transparency Maroc celebrated its 10th anniversary with a two-day programme of conferences that started Friday (12 May) in Rabat. Huguette Labelle, president of Transparency International, stressed the serious effects of corruption on society and the alarming situation of corruption throughout the world. According to her, $148 billion is wasted annually because of corruption in Africa, accounting for 25 per cent of the continental GDP.
Transparency Maroo has dedicated its 2006 efforts to the health and justice sectors. "We chose the health sector because it has major importance in society and justice because it is a key element in the fight against corruption," says Kamal Mesbahi, a member of the Executive Board.
Participants in the conferences voiced their optimism that eradicating corruption is still possible, despite the fact that it has spread in many fields in Morocco. Possible government steps to abate the problem include drafting of anti-corruption laws, signing the UN convention against corruption and setting up of a new Parliamentary commission for fighting corruption. (Morocco Times)
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محمد Posted 4 days ago
God suffices us and He is the best mandate against what we see, hear and experience as a result of the corruption of this country. So here is Morocco, unsurprisingly, dropping in the corruption index, according to Transparency Morocco, from the rank of 72 in 2007 to 80 in 2008 then to 89 in 2009. So here is our country, deteriorating and deteriorating. Here is a story I am living right now, so that you realise the grand scale of negligence in this country, oh Lord. Eleven years ago, in 1998, my wife divorced me, on her request and insistence, with a boy and a girl. In order to achieve her goal, she went to the point of committing adultery in a luxurious apartment which was bought for her by her younger sister who works in Switzerland with another sister. At that time, she told me “I will send you to prison with money from Switzerland”. However, Swiss money cannot take an innocent to prison even in Switzerland. So how can she do that in Morocco? She got divorced at her request in 1998. She relinquished the custody and alimony. She submitted her agreement to relinquish these things in many agreements and commitments, some even before the divorce, when she was at the flat of her sister next to her school, desecrating her honour. Some six months after the divorce, this was also recorded in the divorce contract. In recent days, she went to the first instance court in Casablanca Anfa, claiming the alimony payments for our daughter - who I restored to her six months after the divorce, through the mediation of a neighbour who was my landlord. She kissed his head and swore never to ask for any alimony and that she only wanted the girl to live with her. She also claims alimony for the boy, who I restored to her four years after the divorce for similar and logical reasons. She claimed about 360,000 dirhams. The first instance court was generous and ordered a huge and unaffordable amount. The court didn't care about ignoring all the articles of the law on obligations and commitments, namely Article 18.
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