وزير البيئة يؤكد أن ما حصل في الوزارة "جاء باتجاه الشخص الخطأ": مستمرون في مسؤوليتنا

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رأى وزير البيئة محمد المشنوق أن الحراك الشعبي الذي حصل في وزارة البيئة جاء "باتجاه الشخص الغلط"، مؤكدا في هذا الاطار ان مسؤوليته مستمرة.

وقال المشنوق بعد لقائه رئيس الحكومة تمام سلام في السراي الاربعاء "كان اجتماعا مميزا مع دولة الرئيس الذي شد على أيدي جميع العاملين في وزارة البيئة وما تعرضوا اليه بالامس".

وأكد "ان هذا الموقف حتما جاء مصوبا وكما يقال باتجاه الشخص الغلط".

وأضاف "لكن نحن بدورنا، نؤكد ان مسؤوليتنا مستمرة ونحن جزء من هذه الحكومة واي شيء يتعلق بأي ملف آخر لا مانع لدينا من مناقشة اي أخطاء فيه اذا حصلت".

وتابع "قمنا بأعمالنا حسب ما يمليه علينا ضميرنا وسنستمر ضمن الأطر التي وضعتها"، متمنيا ان "يصل موضوع النفايات الى خاتمة سعيدة لأن البيئة بيئة وطن وليست بيئة القوى السياسية التي لا تزال تقف في وجه هذه الحلول".

وأمس الثلاثاء اقتحم متظاهرون من حملة "طلعت ريحتكم" مبنى وزارة البيئة واعتصموا فيها ساعات طوال، مطالبين باستقالة المشنوق الذي احتجز بمكتبه في الطابق الثامن واخرج مساء اليوم عينه من الباب الخلفي.

وكان وزير البيئ انسحب من اللجنة الوزارية المكلفة متابعة ملف النفايات بعد الفشل في ايجاد اي حل لهذا الملف المستمر منذ اقفال مطمر الناعمة في تموز الفائت.

وتم تكليف وزير الزراعة أكرم شهيب ترؤس لجنة جديدة للبحث في الملف.

م.ن.

التعليقات 14
Missing imagine_1979 13:07 ,2015 أيلول 02

He is the minister in charge, he wasnot able to do his job and he recognized he wont be able to when he withdrew from the comitee so time to go home... Nothing personal, just logic...

Default-user-icon disgusted (ضيف) 14:06 ,2015 أيلول 02

it's always somebody's else fault. shame on this man, this is his legacy people will remember him by - partying in foreign countries while our country drowns in trash.

Default-user-icon don't be (ضيف) 18:06 ,2015 أيلول 02

you got the wrong guy. He was not partying in foreign countries. Get educated before you get disgusted.

Missing helicopter 06:19 ,2015 أيلول 03

Not just this man, all of them point the finger somewhere else. This is why they should not focus on any one man or ministry but on all and specifically the big sharks like Berri, Aoun, and Jumblat who should be stripped of their parliamentary seat. A Democracy is like a machine, all its parts must be synchronized and working well together, one broken part will break bring the whole machine to a halt. My take on Mashnouq is that he was vague on placing the blame, it is his responsibility to be transparent and state exactly who is keeping him from doing his job as it should be done.

Thumb ado.australia 18:00 ,2015 أيلول 02

I feel sorry for the environment minister Mashouq... he inherited a poison chalice. But he is the Minister in charge of what has become the focus point for the peoples rage at the incompetence of this corrupt political class that cannot do anything except agree to illegally extend their own parliamentary terms! Enough of this stinking trash! You all stink!!!!

Thumb ado.australia 18:34 ,2015 أيلول 02

Why are you trying to justify the incompetence of the Lebanese political class? Bassil was energy minister for 3 years and you think he alone stole $1.6 billion? If that is true then what did the rest steal over 20 years? They all stink and people like you smell just as bad!

Thumb ado.australia 18:42 ,2015 أيلول 02

why is there billions of cubic meters of gas of the coast of lebanon but we don't extract it? Is is Bassil's fault? He has being screaming about for years? Or is it the stinking lebanese political class can't decide how to divide the profits amongst themselves? Meanwhile israel and cyprus are pumping our oil and gas while laughing and high fiving the international oil companies all the way to the bank!!!! and we are here arguing about who's fault it is that the rubbish is piling up on the streets!!!! Its piling up coz our politicians are playing games with which one of their invested companies will win the tender to rip of the lebanese people for the next 5 years!

Thumb -phoenix1 19:44 ,2015 أيلول 02

Mr. Mo Ham-Head Mashnouq, the youth movement may have acted wrongly by entering your ministry, yes, for a moment I'll give you that, but it has been quite a while that the people of Lebanon have been asking you to leave because you failed so miserably the job that was delegated to you. They posed no physical threat to you nor the office you serve, so why did your cousin Nouhad the Samba dancer of Mykonos use so executive a force on them? Nouhad is not cut for his job, and neither are you, both of you will now have to answer for your crimes, the people of Lebanon are not goats for you to slaughter.

Default-user-icon disgusted (ضيف) 19:56 ,2015 أيلول 02

The political class are so terrified of Mashnouq falling to the axe of public opinion and they've banded together against the movement - if he becomes accountable for his actions, it'll mean that they'll all be vulnerable to this sort of action.

I pray for the day that our government fears our people, as it is meant to be. They serve the people, not the other way around.

Missing coolmec 20:43 ,2015 أيلول 02

@phoenix
NO the youth movement did not act wrong by entering THE ministry ( it is not HIS ministry) It belongs to the people of Lebanon. State institutions do not belong to a minister it belongs to the people of Lebanon. They have the right to occupy it when it is run by corrupt and inefficient ministers. PERIOD

Default-user-icon mishcoolmec (ضيف) 21:37 ,2015 أيلول 02

can you occupy a federal building in the united states, lol?

Thumb -phoenix1 13:37 ,2015 أيلول 03

(1). Coolmec, habibi, you are I are not in disagreement, but tactically the move was wrong, in a democracy everything belongs to the people, but then wasn't it said that freedom is the highest level of responsibility? Maybe I am no longer a young man, true that, but at least when people of my generation caution, it would be prudent and fair to listen. OK, it wasn't so bad to enter the ministry, it was OK to protest inside the office, but when the minister of the interior asked them to leave, they should have left and continued outside.

Thumb -phoenix1 13:37 ,2015 أيلول 03

(2). Coolmec. Why? Because it is NOT realistic to expect a minister to resign in this way, on the contrary, it would bring about his resolve to stay. I am part of the You Stink movement and here I believe that this could have been avoided, in fact in some segments of Lebanese public, the minister also got himself some public sympathy. I am one who knows when a thing is strategic or otherwise, this was a strategic mistake, there are many other ways better. My take, that's all.

Default-user-icon PEACE (ضيف) 01:38 ,2015 أيلول 03

@coolmec,
I urge you to open your two eyes and not only one. Then if sincere you would urge people to storm Bas-Seal offices and palaces for corruption theft and inefficiency.
I think you agree with me that most politicians are corrupted. As a consequence They caused all actual crisis and deserve well to be to be trialled.
However, (here you may not agree with me), the people should address first the fair election of a PRESIDENT in spite of the boycotting members (not doing their duty). Then putting long agenda for our crisis. In fact if the people succeed to paralysed the parliament and the cabinet then only the chaos prevail for the benefit of illegal arms following the jungle rules.