The Higher Institute of Science and Technology in Nalut has responded to the decision of Administrative Control Authority head Abdullah Gaderbouh to suspend several of its officials, clarifying that the General Department of Investigation had already concluded its probe, referred the case to the Nalut Indictment Chamber, and that the matter is now under judicial authority\u2014beyond the ACA\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The institute explained that the case originated from a complaint filed by an Iraqi employee and his wife, who were contracted as trainees at the institute. They had been receiving their salaries according to the terms of their contracts until their final day of work. However, the couple later demanded to be treated as faculty members and to receive the higher salaries of teaching staff, in violation of the agreements signed with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The institute said its administration rejected the demand, stressing that \u201cthe contract is the law of the parties\u201d and cannot be altered without mutual consent. If the couple no longer wished to continue as trainees, they had the option to request termination of the contract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It added that both the institute\u2019s director and financial controller had insisted on adhering to the signed contracts and refused to pay teaching staff salaries unlawfully. Their stance, it argued, is well-founded legally, since the couple\u2019s salaries were allocated by the Ministry of Finance\u2019s Budget Department under trainee contracts, and it was legally impossible for the institute to reclassify them as faculty pay, as demanded by the ACA and Audit Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The institute further noted that the legal status of a faculty member requires a postgraduate degree (Master\u2019s or PhD), while the complainants only held bachelor\u2019s and licentiate degrees. It expressed surprise that the ACA would entertain a complaint from foreign residents without legal residency status against Libyan officials who had upheld public funds by refusing unlawful salary disbursements\u2014contrary to Article 25 of Law No. 20 of 2013, which defines the Authority\u2019s jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The institute also pointed out that the couple had already filed an administrative lawsuit before the Administrative Court of the Tripoli Court of Appeal. Accordingly, the ACA should have refrained from investigating the complaint and left the matter to the judiciary to avoid conflicting rulings\u2014a principle it had respected in the past. Instead, the Authority ignored this principle and overstepped its role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In closing, the institute questioned what would have happened if its director had authorized the inflated salaries as instructed by the ACA, and the court later rejected the couple\u2019s demands. \u201cHow would the excess payments be recovered? Wouldn\u2019t it have been more prudent to let the judiciary decide the matter?\u201d it asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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