While François Anick Joseph, Minister of Interior and Territorial Communities has constantly reminded to national and local elected officials, staff of the central and territorial public administration of the State, national and international partners and the general public, that the National Emergency Operations Centre (COUN), is the first responsible for the receipt, coordination and management of public assistance both domestic and international and is responsible for making the distribution of aid in the various Centres of Departmental Emergency Operations;

While the de facto President Jocelerme Privert on many occasions, to end suspicions or information indicating that the aid was going through other distribution channels, political and partisan, to reach the families, than official channels and keeps asking the authorities to ensure strict compliance with delivery standards... https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19058-haiti-politic-privert-requires-strict-compliance-with-distribution-standards.html ;

While the Provisional Electoral Council has called to order several times and warned candidates and political parties, that humanitarian assistance to victims of Hurricane Matthew is an act of non-partisan solidarity https://www.icihaiti.com/en/news-18927-icihaiti-elections-humanitarian-aid-warning-of-cep.html ;

It seems that beyond of assertions of coordination, of control and rigor to avoid partisan excesses, the government makes accomplice of aid distributions with political flavor, recognizing not even know to whom the aid is distributed ...

Also Friday at a press briefing on the state of the distribution of humanitarian aid https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19090-haiti-humanitarian-distribution-of-aid-of-communities-remain-inaccessible.html the Minister François Anick Joseph, acknowledged that the Dominican humanitarian aid stored in the SONAPI warehouse, because of teh mack of space in the warehouse of the COUN, was transported by parliamentarians, stating "There are parliamentarians who wanted to lead the convoys who went in their constituencies, we have allowed them to go with assistance to affected communities [...]" adding that he did not know whether the goods are arriving or not to destination "I do not know if they have been distributed. This does not concern me," a surprising statement of a inister of Interior, which disempowers by specifying that it is the mayors and municipal committees of civil protection, which are responsible for the distribution...

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