Details of 720 thousand dollars revealed the value of the rental palace of Porting in Port Sudan

Books- Awadallah Nawi- Director of the One Press Agency for Press Investigations and Media, an article entitled “Palace of Barter”, saying: Who used to live in the famous businessman Abu al-Qasim Bartam in Port Sudan?

That luxurious palace, which was placed in the service of a member of the Sovereign Council during a sensitive period, and was rented for a monthly amount of $ 30,000, equivalent to 360 thousand dollars per year, and in the overall period in which the number was spent to 720 thousand dollars, according to what leaks close to the office of the temporary presidential palace management.

Yes, he is Mr. Shams Al -Din Al -Kabbashi, a member of the Sovereign Council, who has taken from that palace as his residence while he was in Port Sudan, while the country was groaning under war and displacement, and state agencies operated with emergency relief and institutional disintegration.

In a paradox that reveals the ethical differences before the political, the new Prime Minister, Kamel Idris, refused to reside in the same palace, considering – according to journalist Abdel -Baqi Al -Dhafir – that the cost is very expensive, but rather “irrational” in light of the financial crisis in Sudan, denying that his decision is caused by the preference of another place, but only from a national and moral starting point and keenness on public money.

Idris’s decision in this circumstance is not only a symbolic step, but also expresses a different approach to the practice of power, which may not admire the symbols of the previous regime or influential people from the remains of the “benefit” alliances, but it satisfies the suffering street and redefines “leadership” away from the manifestations of authoritarian extravagance.

But on the other hand, the Idris government presented itself to a new challenge, when it decided to open the door for public competition for ministerial positions, a step that seems at first glance a title of transparency, but it collided with difficult questions related to mechanisms and time justice in the application, as it was announced for competition for only 72 hours, without an accurate clarification of the nature of jobs or even the criterion of sorting, which turned the noble idea into a confusion And bureaucracy.

In a vast country like Sudan, the citizen in El -Fasher, Kosti, or Dandar cannot prepare his CV and obtain a seal of support or fill public service forms within three days, then compete for what was not clearly disclosed.

Transparency is not complete with the advertisement alone, but rather is based on clear foundations: defining jobs, conditions, stages of comparison, and publishing results. But if the “ministerial giving” turns into an experiment without controls, it will end with the creation of a new elite of the political opponents of the Prime Minister, and will open the door to chanting against the “convincing quotas” instead of hoping for hope for change.

The best – and the most feasible – was to create a permanent collection of national competencies, managed professionally, and receive employment requests for higher positions, so that it is used automatically whenever a position is vacant. Then, the Prime Minister does not need more than one button, and he finds a list of him, from inside and outside Sudan, to improve the choice of those who serve the people, not who serve themselves.

Sudan needs a renewed political mind and a serious administrative spirit, not to shortening palaces or decisions taken with the wheel.

This is a task that deserves to start from a Portraft palace … not to end with it.