CEREHRA today writes to the Italian government to draw the later's attention to the unjust way that the Gedo regional and district councils are established.
"There is no single woman in the regional council, and the project is funded by the Italian government. That is very hard to beleive" said the lead-under-cover HRA in Gedo region of Somalia.
The UNDP-implemented project was the most widely critisized in the South of Somalia. Among the allegations were that Saverio Betrolino, the Italian project manager (employed by UNOPS) split $500,000.00 with Mohamed Abdi Osman A.K.A. as Hire Jab Ari, a notorious mafia leader in Nairobi, who acted as the facilitator of the project.
Saverio Betrolino is widely known as the the 'Craxi of UNOPS' while one can equate Mr. Ari with Barre.
Mr. Ari ( famous for being enriched by CARE, SOMALIA) and Betrolino deceived the program for not doing the reconciliation and delibiration parts of the project, and that rendition yielded the half-a-million dollars that those guys split, the local people and press maintain.
