Writing to Zaman English by Yusra Ahmed
ISTANBUL (Zaman Al Wasl)- Source from the Syrian Interim Government reported to Zaman al-Wasl that Ahmed Tomeh, the Interim Prime Minister, has issued an order preventing employees and customers from letting their laptops into the government headquarter, besides preventing employees from taking their work laptops outside the government’s buildings.
Those procedures are part of many precautions Tomeh took to stop information and documents’ leakage to media and the National Coalition, it started with sacking many employees from the media office and the general secretariat of the government”, the source added.
Those procedures have been taken as a part of the recommendations of the committee was formed to investigate and tackle leakage, led by Mohiddin Harmoosh and Khaldoon al-Kosiri.
Many employees in the Interim government denounced the step and resembled it to Syrian regime’s intelligence acts. “The prime minister will deprive us from papers and pens if he carries on with this security mentality"
The General Secretariat’s employees showed the same opinion of Tomeh’s procedures and some commented: “only those who are afraid of finding out their corruption, do those security procedures”
They added that leaked information could have been leaked by memorising and there was no need for those procedures, moreover, leaking information can be done by many aids without using laptops.
An employee reported that Zohair Agha, Deputy the General secretary commented on the order saying: “there was no laptops in government’s institutions before, let go back to that time”
in a relevant content, a special source reported to Zaman al-Wasl that Ahmed Tomeh has yesterday issued an order to sack 6 employees among them the head of the media centre in the interim Ministry of Health, the Minister of Health’s cousin, for his bad performance, especially during Measles vaccine's crisis, as he called for a press conference and cancelled it three times, beside the conflicting statements he provided about the matter.
The same order included sacking Jimy Shahinian, accusing him of instigating against the Interim Government and calling for a sit-in via facebook.
The latest decisions Ahmed Tomeh took, have been part of his attempts to control leakage of corruption and misuse inside the government to media.
Zaman al-Wasl published many of those cases. Moreover, it has a wide file with date and numbers, will be published soon.
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