Natural resources
Heavy metals from the Tuzla Power Plant’s tailings are slowly poisoning nearby settlements.
Mubarek Asani (CIN)
05.2.2015
Heavy metals from the Tuzla Power Plant’s tailings are slowly poisoning nearby settlements.
Regulations guaranteeing that all residents of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina pay the same for medical treatment were adopted five years ago. But, the cantons are not implementing them and not even children or pensioners have the same rights with respect to public health care.
The Federation has spent some 226,000 KM for accommodation allowances for 13 ministers. There is no system for verifying if the money is spent on accommodation and catching misuses of the perk.
Tuzla residents get sick and die from diseases caused by harmful particles spewed by gigantic chimneys at the town’s entrance.
The government is using fees built into electricity bills paid by citizens to buy power from solar power stations for 10 times the market price. The relevant ministry’s officials say that they do not know how such a high price for renewable energy was calculated in the first place.
Over the past five years just one doctor has been sentenced for corruption, while two were acquitted in BiH.
Taxpayer money is spent so that public institutions can “win” meaningless international awards.
Leaders of the eight most influential political parties in BiH own real estate worth around 7.5 million KM.
Bakir Izetbegović, Nikola Špirić, Velimir Kunić, Fahrudin Radončić, Ivo Komšić and Esed Radeljaš have omitted valuable property holdings in their asset declarations.
Water taxes collected in Tuzla Canton where the flooding is frequent are being spent on civil service salaries, public officials’ professional development, and long-service benefits.
While the number of unemployed in Bosnia and Hezegovina is on the increase, the property riches of numerous office holders in the executive and legislative government is on the increase.
Reporters from the Center for Investigative Reporting interviewed over a hundred of war victims.
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