Mohammad Masoom Hashimi Safi, head of Kunduz security department, said Saturday that security officials who were fired last year by President Ashraf Ghani are behind the Kunduz crisis.
Safi added that last year, when Ghani visited Kunduz, he fired or changed the duty station of more than 200 security officials, heads of checkpoints and security forces over negligence in doing their duties.
But a number of these security forces and security officials retained their original jobs based on their political and personal relations with influential figures, he said.
He said these security officials again did not do their jobs properly or were not qualified and that they were the main reason for parts of the city falling to the Taliban.
The council warned that if officials who do not carry out their duties as required are not punished, the city will fall to the Taliban for the third time.
“I think one of the reasons for the second crisis in Kunduz is the security officials who was fired and then returned to their jobs based on relations,” Hashimi said.
Meanwhile, Kunduz provincial council criticized the reappointment of these officials and said they must be brought to justice.
“The fact-finding team had fired 21 people and I think they were reappointed and then the crisis happened once again,” said Safiullah Amiri, a member of Kunduz provincial council.
The 808 Spinzar Zone police meanwhile said they have started investigations in to the allegations.http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/28302-officials-fired-by-ghani-last-year-behind-kunduz-crisis-hashimi
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