King Mohammed VI Orders Investigation After Poor Woman’s Complaint During Ramadan Aid Distribution

During the launch by King Mohammed VI of the national food support operation "Ramadan 1440", a conversation he is said to have had with a poor woman is said to have motivated him to order administrative investigations to be launched. A head has already fallen, according to Assabah.

The media states: "A royal anger has just brought down, last week, a pacha who was at the head of an urban area of Rabat in the middle of the national food support operation."

Assabah explains that the old woman would, after thanking the king for the efforts made during this month of Ramadan, have expressed her dissatisfaction with the attitude of certain officials, which had caused her to have to wait a long time before obtaining the aid in question.

According to the media, the king would have taken her remarks very seriously, before deciding to order administrative inquiries that have resulted in a pacha, until now, being shelved in the central offices of the Ministry of the Interior, pending the results of the investigation and the identification of those responsible as well as the degrees of responsibility attributable to each and what will result from it in terms of appropriate administrative sanctions that may be applied to them, including the pacha.

Assabah provides more details and writes: "The needy woman criticized the fact that the needy were brought in at 9 a.m. and made to wait seven hours in a scorching heat." The media specifies: "This is what provoked the king’s anger. He ordered an investigation to find those responsible for making needy people wait so long to get a Ramadan basket."