SANALLAH REFUSES TO OWN UP TO HIS FAILURE #Turkey's has one highest rates of #Covid19 cases and yet a new batch of Syrian militants arrived yesterday in #Libya in preparation for its offensive to capture #Sirte and #oil facilities. Millet’s UK1 sterling capital company has won a contract worth thousands of pounds from the NOC. What is telling is that these news media organisations are also the ones who are regularly approached the public relations firm hired by Sanallah through his ex-friend and current NOC’s client, the former UK ambassador to Tripoli, Peter Millett. It is only reports from news agencies such as Reuters and Bloomberg, for example, who claim Syrian presence with the LNA and we were yet to see material or visual evidence of any of their claims. The same mercenaries gathering to attack the oil ports under the banner of Turkey. Sanallah’s allegations about the presence of the Syrians, in particular, aroused the discontent of a large segment of the Libyan population who have seen Syrians only in the ranks of the Government of National Accord (GNA). They demand the Syrian leaders responsible for them to solve the problem with the #GNA. Media accounts of the terrorist #Hayat #Tahrir al- #Sham publish a complaint from its members at the Salah al-Din camps on salary delays after their participation in the #Tripoli war. The closure of the oil terminals is a major cause of the payment dilemma that Sanallah faces, and one of the reasons for calls for his dismissal as head of the NOC. This is evident from various videos published by Syrian mercenaries themselves. He is also well aware that Syrian mercenaries with the GNA are waiting for payment of their salaries from the oil proceeds. Sanallah claimed that Syrian mercenaries with the Libyan National Army (LNA) were also occupying the oil ports.However, Sanallah attended the meeting last month with the high-level Turkish delegation and he knows exactly which party Syrian mercenaries support: the Government of National Accord (GNA) and which now total over 13,000 according to ground reports. Al-Marsad found no trace of foreigner presence at the site. Al-Marsad has prove that this allegation was false when it toured the length and breadth of al-Sharara field witihn hours after the accusations were made. In his statement Sanallah said Russian mercenaries were occupying the oil ports without providing single evidence to support such accusations. Fields will not be opened before our demands are fulfilled.
Sheikh al-Senussi al- #Heliq of the Council of Sheikhs and Notables of Libya to Al-Marsad: Oil fields are still closed and quantities exported today were stored in tanks for a while. The increasingly vocal demands for his dismissal from the almost “permanent position” has has been occupying for five years are the reason for such reckless attitude, especially after the international stakeholders started to discuss this matter. He even implied military escalation in oil ports for the first time without considering the consequences of such language. (Libya, 13 July 2020) – Following tweets by the US Embassy, the Chairman of the Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) Mustafa Sanallah issued a statement which was nothing short of lacking the minimum standards of balance and accuracy. On the other hand, NOC officials told Al-Marsad, “We learned that the source of this information is the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli.”
“The NOC was informed that the United Arab Emirates instructed Haftar’s forces to stop oil production again,” Mustafa Sanallah claimed without specifying who informed him, how, and why. With the growing demands in Libya for his dismissal as a condition for the resumption of oil exports, Mustafa Sanallah seems to have lost his balance in a statement issued yesterday in which he falsely accused the UAE of being behind the closure of oil whilst remaining silent on continued Turkish threats to attack oil facilities.