“Whenever collaboration is requested from this Government Delegation, collaboration is maximum. It has happened to us with the tanatorium, it has happened to us with the classrooms for the Band, Orchestra and Choir, and with everything that is required, because it is not required by a certain government, it is required by the Melillense citizenship and, therefore, the administrations are here to put us at the service of the Melillenses”.
The Delegate of the Government in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, has made it clear that the General Administration of the State will continue to look after the interest of the Melillense citizens and that it will continue to offer its collaboration to the local Executive but has regretted that “it never goes the other way”. “We are always there to provide the solution, to collaborate, but when it is the other way round, we look at everything with a magnifying glass or try to slow down and, in the end, the Melillense citizens are harmed,” he said.
And not only that, he recalled that the local Executive never assumes responsibility for the problems they generate for the citizens “because there is always the central Government and the Government Delegation to blame it”.
As the head of the Government Delegation recalled, the normal thing is that, if you intend to carry out a work in the funeral home, you first have to plan what is going to be done during the time that the work lasts, especially when it is such a sensitive issue.
However, since the PP government it has been done the other way around. They undertake a work, they create a problem and yet “the blame lies with someone else and they do not assume any responsibility”. And the same has happened with the water, where they asked for the competences, but if there is any problem, it is always the fault of the Hydrographic Confederation of the Guadalquivir.
“We, of course, will always be at the disposal of what we are required to do, but the resources are what they are and we have to work with a perfectly defined project”, he argued and pointed out that the problems that the PP government is generating for the citizens occur when “all the actions are left to improvise”.
Competency request
At this point, the Delegate has addressed the request for more competences that the Government of Imbroda is doing. “They are not able to efficiently and professionally manage the skills they already have,” he said. An example of this is the loss of 5 million euros in Employment Plans that occurred last year due to the mismanagement of the same of the Imbroda Government.
Thus, Moh has explained that, in the Employment Plan of the Autonomous City, although the money comes from the Government of Spain and the Public Service of State Employment (SEPE), it is the SEPE that works directly with the City and the Delegation has no role in the Employment Plan that it develops.
“The relationship is that of the Autonomous City with the SEPE and, once the grant is approved and the Autonomous City already has the money, the SEPE what it does is intermediation and send to the City the candidates that are required,” he explained.
Thus, the problem of the 5 million euros that the Autonomous City lost was due to the fact that the Government of Imbroda was not able to sign a single contract before the date that has been established. However, “instead of accepting it and asking for forgiveness because they have lost the 5 million euros, what they do is say that the Government Delegation has lost it”, he recalled. However, “the Government Delegation cannot lose money when the Government Delegation is not part of that action,” he stressed.
For this reason, Moh has asked the citizens to exercise their imagination of what would happen if the local government, in addition, had such important competences as education or health, “when they are not able to carry out their own competences with professionalism and, above all, assume the mistakes they make”.
“Asking for more competences is obviously legal, but I think that, before asking for them, they should be able to carry out all the competences they already have,” he concluded.