Pambazuka News

Libya: Gadaffi tells government to hand out oil money

2008-05-09

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/corruption/47991

Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi accused a "corrupt" government of failing to manage the country's oil wealth and ordered it to hand out oil money directly to the country's five million people. Western diplomats said the call, late on Wednesday, appeared aimed at putting pressure on the government to speed up reforms to improve the living standard of the population at a time of soaring oil revenues.