“KSF Generals to be spared from the Government's decision to ban”

Colak said the decisions to prevent unnecessary use of official cars are productive for budget preservation, but that according to him, there should be exemptions for generals as a result of the nature of their work.

During this month, Defence Minister Armend Mehay has banned the use of overtime vehicles for generals.

“Generally the decisions of ministries, Governments and other agencies for savings for unnecessary spending or even the use of cars in private time in principle is a good decision, but in the concrete case of having the Ministry of Defence specifically where it comes to the generals, and I think that these would have to be spared from this decision, I think the specificity of their work, delikacia, the services they have to have even outside the working time of the official cars that they are repeating once again the specificity of their work and requires a little exception from this <1x> he said.

Otherwise, for the next command level and other ministry officials, I think it's the ruling in principle right because our republic needs rationality in the use of assets. Why not save the unnecessary services of various structures so that official vehicles are not used. We see government cars at overtime, why don't a order and discipline be set. But the generals had to be spared from this decision”, he said.

Last year the Kurti Government has voted the decision, which prohibits 24 hours of car exploitation by state officials. Where it is predicted that such a thing can be done with only preliminary approval from the relevant institution.

But it has often been reported to officials to misuse cars.

The other subx0 institutions were supposed to start this practice earlier because the abuses that are obvious, all citizens have had to see, for example I've had a chance to see after 5:00 an official goes and takes children to school. So do other officials when they go and park around there and irritate citizens about how they misuse official cars and other expenses. So a order and discipline must be put in place for government officials and other agencies to take care of rational exploitation of public asset, since really public money should be saved and used functionally in the service of citizens and not abused by various officials who they are”, he said.

While according to Colak, the use of state cars rationally makes a big difference in preserving Kosovo's budget.

It has financial significance if we analyze how many cars they are and how many they could be abused or exploited unnecessary, certainly a significant amount of the budget would be saved or spared... To rationally exploit public assets”, he told Online Economy.