Shiite Leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, demands govt. to allocate oil share for each Iraqi citizen

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: The Leader of the Iraq’s Sadrist Trend, Young Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, has demanded the Iraqi Parliament and government to allocate a share from Iraqi oil for each Iraqi citizen, along with allocating a patch of land for each family that does not possess a house, along with facilities to build a house on it, Legislature Bahaa al-Aaraji said on Monday. Aaraji said that Muqtada al-Sadr‘s demand had been cited during his attendance of the Iraqi Parliament‘s session on Sunday, in which he said that he had raised his demand due to the fact that agriculture had deteriorated in Iraq, thing that necessitates on the government and parliament to strive to support peasants and farmers to develop agriculture, in order to enable them selling agricultural products to the people for prices cheaper than imported products. MB (A) / SKH 200