The former Head of the Libyan Post Telecommunications and Information Technology Company (LPTIC), Faisal Qurqab, claimed that the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU), Abdelhamid Al-Dbaiba, and his son asked him to outsource the work of improving the sector to a new local company.
“Prime Minister Al-Dbaiba and his son asked me to sign a contract with the Lathron company, which is a new local company,” Qurqab said during an interview with Al-Wasat TV.
He stressed the evaluation of the Libyan company that said the Lathron company had neither money nor technical capacity. However, the company requested 47 million United States (US) dollars to improve the work of communications in housing and internal buildings.
“Al-Dbaiba called me personally to sign a contract with this company,” Qurqab claimed.
“Public companies in the telecommunications sector work with the best international companies with a certain classification, and this is what we have been doing for decades. No corruption deals at the sector because we work with transparency,” he noted.
“I was arrested because I said no to this deal,” Qurqab concluded.
In January, Libya’s Special Deterrence Forces (RADA) arrested the former Head of the LPTIC in Tripoli.
According to a statement published by RADA, Faisal Qurqab, accompanied by Mohamed Al-Hijazi, and an armed group stormed the headquarters of the holding company.
RADA explained that during the attack, the company’s headquarters were broken into and employees were attacked.
The statement indicated that the attackers claimed they were implementing an unresolved judicial ruling in favour of Qurqab.
It added that the attacking parties were arrested, and were referred to the competent authorities to begin the necessary legal measures against them.
In October, the LPTIC announced the dismissal of Qurqab, who was replaced by Mohamed bin Ayyad. The new Board of Directors included Khaled Al-Issawi, Khomeni Muhammad Embarek, Fathi Issa Abdel-Karim, Hussein Al-Taweelb, Faraj Al-Sayeh, and Mohamed Abu Bakr.
It is noteworthy that the LPTIC is the owner of the telecommunications sector in Libya.