Sixty-day deadline For Ali Haddad… To Offset Delay Or Face Termination Of Contracts

On Wednesday, the Ali Haddad Group received additional warnings from the Ministry of Transport and Public Works, notably regarding the gross delay in the achievement of a large project for the fast-paced electric railway line linking Tlemcen and Wadi Talil in Oran, as part of a deal worth 117 billion dinars (over $ 1 billion), confirming that the split is now obviously marked between the Government and the Haddad building complex.

 The injunction was issued in the form of advertising through the National Agency for Publishing and Advertising “Anep” and directed to a consortium of Turkish companies working in partnership with the ETRHB complex of Ali Haddad. 

It further stated that the relevant transaction was approved by the Public Sector Committee under No. 03/2013 on 6 February 2013, estimated at billion of dinars, including the amount of foreign currency worth 301 million Euros, and the amount paid reached more than 18 billion dinars, while pointing out that the building works should have been normally started by the ETRHB Group on 20 March 2013.

It explained that the ETRHB Group  has now 60 days to resume the works, as this gross delay by the latter it said, was totally unjustified,  adding that it is now bound to strengthen the workshops with the necessary human and financial resources and to supply them with construction materials and to take care of the workers in the progress of the building works, while strictly respecting the contractual obligations as stipulated in the deal.

In view of the evolution of the events and their sequence, it is clear that the estrangement has become official and irreversible between the Government and beleaguered Ali Haddad, who has long been described as close to the ruling circles, especially after the release of a collective  statement by a number of Employers’ organizations criticizing Prime Minister, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, for having driven away from an official ceremony in Algiers earlier this week the FCE head Ali Haddad.

 The collective statement was signed yesterday under the auspices of the Secretary General of the Central Trade Union (UGTA), Abdelmadjid Sidi Said.