Incinerator of Tirana/Manjani: Officials should be responsible, not businessmen

2023-12-23 15:03:54Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Incinerator of Tirana/Manjani: Officials should be responsible, not businessmen
Ylli Manjani

Lawyer Ylli Manjani, in a note on social networks, once again returns to the debate about incinerators. He emphasizes that responsibility should be sought from officials and not from businessmen.

"We, the public and the media, are accountable to those who vote, who make decisions on our behalf and administer our money and wealth, and not to those who receive tenders", underlines Manjani.

Manjani's full note:

Once again, I insist on this argument:

We don't have to ask the business for the responsibility for unfinished or badly done public works, but the government/municipality.

We, the public and the media, hold accountable those who vote, who make decisions on our behalf and manage our money and wealth, not those who receive tenders!

Concretely, to illustrate the argument, the question why we pay and there is no incinerator in Tirana should be answered by the municipality of Tirana, ie Erion Veliaj and not the private company or even Mirel Mërtiri. The municipality is the one that pays for this service and it is the one that must ensure that the money paid goes to that service. If she pays and there is no service, then she owes us money and public responsibility.

The party in conflict with us is the municipality, not the business! The latter is in the interest of the public because it contributes to the public economy.

I even support the idea that criminal reform should focus exclusively on this relationship, that is, on holding legal responsibility to those who make decisions and control the performance of public works and not to those who receive tenders. Tender taking is not a crime, tendering outside the rules and without competition is. Likewise, the same logic applies to licenses, permits, concessions.

Criminal responsibility should be for the officials.

Let's be honest, if the government gives you money and public work, why are you considered guilty?! What if you are the one who takes that money, why are you innocent?!

But this is another topic. My argument lies in the accountability and responsibility for the first public works, which belongs only to the government/municipality. So those who decide for us with our vote and with our money and property.

Others enter the debate in vain, because the public does not vote for them. No one else owes us an account.

I stand by this logic, as the only one to separate the alum from the sugar in this great social, political and legal chaos in which we live.


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