Day: April 8, 2023

The audit and inspection committee, which is continuing its work, will examine the various financial and administrative transactions and operations of the Tunisian Football Federation (FTF) over the past ten years, said spokesperson for the Ministry of Youth and Sport Lotfi Hamda. Its work will be completed in three months, he added.

In a statement to TAP Saturday, Hamda stressed that “the thorough inspection committee appointed by the ministry to carry out the inspection work within the Tunisian Football Federation is working hard despite the large volume of work.

Inspecting all the financial and administrative operations within such a large federation as the Football Federation is not an easy task, especially since the committee is working according to specific scientific and professional criteria, he pointed out.

The spokesperson for the ministry added that the inspection committee always gives the federation the opportunity to clarify its position on certain observations that require the hearing of the opposing party, but in the event of failure to do so, the matter is referred to the judiciary, especially when serious crimes are involved.

In this regard, he recalled that the Ministry intervened in the case brought by the Tunisian Federation of School and University Sports against the FTF and called in the Public Prosecutor without waiting for the Committee’s final report.

The Ministry’s spokesperson added: “The Inspection Commission carries out its work with complete impartiality and independence, and it can refer to the files received by the Ministry of Youth and Sports that contain suspicions of corruption.

He said the committee’s final report will be ready within a maximum of three months, after which the ministry will take the appropriate decisions, with the possibility of referring any suspected serious crime to the public prosecutor’s office without waiting for the committee’s work to be completed.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Tunisian and Arab parties and organisations, in a joint statement issued Saturday condemned “the Zionist and criminal aggression” against the Palestinian people in Al-Aqsa Mosque, al Quds, the West Bank and Gaza.

The signatory parties and organisations, including the Al-Qotb Party (Tunisia), the Voie Démocratique Travailiste (Morocco) and the Communist Party of Lebanon, also strongly condemned the silence and complicity of the “regimes of normalisation and betrayal that have submitted to world imperialism”, as well as the inability of official international institutions, especially the United Nations.

The signatories praised the brave resistance of the Palestinian people inside the occupied territories and in other areas, including Lebanon, the statement said. They called for greater unity to defeat the aggression, liberate the land and people and end the occupation.

The signatories, including the Democratic Patriots’ Unified Party (Tunisia), the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Jordanian Popular Unity Democratic Party, called on all national forces in the Arab world to join the resistance and global mobilisation, to act swiftly and in all possible ways to support the Palestinian cause and to oppose normalisation, complicity and betrayal.

They also called for forming broad coalitions of countries in the region to support the Palestinian struggle and resist normalisation and to hold rallies in front of the Zionist and US embassies and the UN missions.

Among the parties and organisations that signed the declaration are: the Workers’ Party (Tunisia), the Tastatii Movement (Mauritania), the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Jordanian Democratic People’s Party (Hashd), the Collective of Sahrawi Human Rights Defenders and the Socialist Popular Alliance Party (Egypt).

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse

Interior Minister Kamel Feki inspected during a working visit in Gafsa governorate the road checkpoints and mobile patrols in the Oum El Arayes delegation.

He further took cognisance of the theoretical and practical exercises carried out to test these units’ capacities to protect the Tunisian borders and counter the dangers of terrorism and smuggling.

The minister commended in this regard, the efforts exerted by the various units in position to ensure the protection of the borders and combat smuggling, terrorism and irregular migration.

The security units need support, given the difficult situation the country i going through, he indicated.

The efforts exerted by the security and military units are aimed at reassuring Tunisian society and other units working in cities and large towns, pointing out that the Interior Ministry had launched a fortnight ago a round of control visits to security units in several governorates as part of control operations in order to assess their capacity to combat smuggling and irregular migration.

Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse