69 companies blacklisted in Wassit Province

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: Wassit‘s Provincial Council has announced on Monday that 69 local companies for general contracts have been blacklisted, due to their failure to implement the projects they had signed in the Province, Wassit’s Governor said.    “Our Province has blacklisted 69 local companies for general contracts, together with their managers, and suspended their work, due to their failure in implementing service contracts’ projects they had signed in the Province,” Wassit’s Governor Mahdi al-Zubaidy told IraqiNews.com news agency.   He said that work “had continued in 136 projects for the development of the Province, for which over 80 billion (b) dinars were allocated for from the Province’s budget.”   “The Province shall take legal measures against the blacklisted companies in the event that they enter the work under other names and burdening them with the loss that had been caused to the public property,” he stressed, adding that “the contracts that were withdrawn from them would be transferred for other companies.”   Kut, the center of Wassit Province, is 180 km to the southeast of Baghdad.   SKH (TI)/SR 751