Ollaik to the Prime Minister Diab: Go ahead, take your turn and don't bury your head in the ground, you have to be  brave

Ollaik to the Prime Minister Diab: Go ahead, take your turn and don't bury your head in the ground, you have to be  brave

In a recorded video, lawyer Rami Ollaik addressed the caretaker Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, saying: “Dr. Diab, the Lebanese prime minister, a caretaker or otherwise, you are not in a situation where you ask for the permissibility to take measures, but it is your duty and responsibility to take them, and there is no more exceptional case than the one that Lebanon is going through; people have become humiliated in their own country and beggars for electricity power in their homes, and there are those who are waiting to die as a result of the deterioration of services, especially the power cuts and the need of the health sector and its patients for the power permanent availability, and this cannot go on”.

Ollaik stated that in any country in the world, when there is a public official committing or suspicious of committing a crime, he is detained or dismissed until the necessary investigations are carried out and justice takes its course. He continued: “In Lebanon, Riad Salameh, the first engineer of financial and economic policies, is responsible in the first place for the collapse nationwide without any measures taken against him. We have previously sent you, Doctor Hassan, an ultimatum issued by the UFL Alliance and the “Depositors’ Cry” Association, and asked you to call for an emergency cabinet session, with one single clause on its agenda, the dismissal of the Governor of Lebanon central bank, Riad Salameh.”

Addressing Diab, he added, “As a prime minister and university professor, you are aware that people are not in need of long records of scientific achievements, they as well do not only need "decent people" with social relations, rather they need men of state, “brave” officials, up to this phase to help them get rid of the bitter reality they live in every single day, so do not blame others and bury your head in the ground.”

Ollaik also considered that even the large number of unresolved cases with judiciary and the files found at the Discriminatory Public Prosecutor’s office, Judge Ghassan Oeidat, do not prevent Prime Minister Diab from taking responsibility even if he is a defendant in the forensic investigation. Citizens are certain that he is not involved in the corruption that led to the catastrophe of August 4, 2020. And despite that, he did not appear before the judge to support the transparency of judiciary. Ollaik pointed that the above was a severe mistake by PM Diab.

Ollaik concluded in addressing Diab: “with or without a government, this is not the issue, and the game of quotas is not accepted anymore. The Lebanese are tired of it and of the ugly image in general. What we want today is a “brave” prime minister, easing the pain of the people, so go ahead and take a stand, or else you will, indeed, turn into the first enemy to the Lebanese.