Our source has exclusively obtained an official report from the Audit Bureau revealing the depletion of the state treasury related to school textbook printing. This was attributed to controversial contracting mechanisms, the deliberate obstruction of other companies, and the granting of facilitation by all parties to a company owned by the Gaddad family, allowing it to import books without obstacles.
According to the report, a significant discrepancy was found in the cost of printing books through local companies via direct contracting, amounting to $18.2 million (114.9 million Libyan dinars). Direct contracting with the Italian company reached $19.5 million (123 million dinars), while the cost through local intermediaries rose sharply to $37.7 million, equivalent to approximately 238 million Libyan dinars.
It was also found that deficits were deliberately created for other local companies, while procedures were facilitated for Al-Bashir Printing and Publishing Company, affiliated with the Gaddad Group. This enabled it to carry out imports even through the Italian company, without officially notifying other companies of the termination of their contracts with the ministry.
The Administrative Control Authority was also found to bear responsibility for the worsening of the school textbook crisis, after taking measures outside its jurisdiction and in violation of applicable legislation. The delay in providing school textbooks is also attributed to the Government of National Unity, due to its failure to respond to correspondence from the Ministry of Education and its failure to grant permission for immediate contracting, which led to a further escalation of the crisis.
