The Director of the Military Accounts Department of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Lieutenant-General Attia Al-Sharif condemned the “deliberate delay in paying the salaries of Libyan military personnel in the east and south of the country.”
He stated that March’s salary was just now paid to army members in the east and south. April’s salaries were paid in the west a week ago, and were published in the media.
Al-Sharif expressed his hope that the salaries of military personnel would be paid before Eid Al-Fitr.
Earlier this week, the Libyan Parliaments’ Interior Committee denounced the steps taken by Prime Minister, Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba, to stop the salaries of Internal Security Service (ISS) employees in the eastern region.
In a statement, the committee affirmed that “this matter is part of a systematic policy to demolish the specialized security services and starve their employees and their families, especially during the holy month of Ramadan.”
The statement added that the PM has deliberately stopped disbursing salaries since January. The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, and the Administrative Control Authority were also addressed in this regard.
It denounced the “deliberate failure to spend any budget on the apparatus in the eastern region, since Dbaiba took over the government duties in 2021. In return, the government spent more than 60 million Libyan dinars to head the parallel apparatus in Tripoli, which is controlled by a militia.”
The committee held the PM, “legally responsible for starving more than 5,000 Libyan families.”
In January, the LNA General Command said that the PM had suspended the paychecks of its forces, “while he and his family spent 20 billion dinars on developing corruption, instead of working to improve citizens’ life.” The statement added that “LNA forces are protecting the oil facilities, whose revenues amounted to 103 billion dinars this year, and Dbaiba and his family rewarded them by cutting their salaries.”