Members of the Kabul Provincial Council said that there is no monitoring of reconstruction works in the capital as the term for most council members have come to an end with no one to handover the duties to as the results for the provincial council elections have not been released.
Members of the council assert that the lack of work and monitoring is due to the delay in the provincial council elections, adding that if the results are not announced soon the issue will only intensify.
"There is no monitoring on the reconstruction works in Kabul by any of the provincial council members and some are not even working," Amiruddin Haq Panah, Kabul Council member, said. "Consciously, we feel ashamed for receiving salary because we are not working."
Another member, Mariam Ahmadi, said that some members are working, but the duties should have been transferred to the newly elected council members.
"We're still working as members of the Kabul Council, but according to the law we should have transferred our duty to the new members long ago," Ahmadi explains.
The question left unanswered still is when the provincial council election results will be announced. Just a couple of weeks ago, Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC) Chief Abdul Sattar Saadat told TOLOnews that the results will be announced before Eid ul-Adha.
"We and all those affiliated to the election process are tired of the prolonged process," Saadat said. "We will dispatch our assessments about the votes to the Independent Election Commission (IEC) a day before Eid ul-Adha."
Eid has now passed and still no sight of when the electoral commissions will announce the results and in the words of the current council members, "delaying the announcement will not be in the favor of the country."
The ECC chief did say that the presidential elections is the main reason behind the stalemate of the provincial elections and added that in the future the presidential and provincial council elections will not be conducted simultaneously.
