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Human rights and civil society organizations concerned about alleged corruption scandals at ONI and call for audit

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Gathered within the structure called Ensemble contre la corruption (ECC), nearly a dozen human rights and civil society organizations, including CARDH, CEDH, CE-JILAP, CONHANE, RNDDH, CRESFED, PAJ and SKL, have expressed their concerns following the recent revelations regarding the misappropriation of public property by the former Director General of the National Identification Office (ONI), Jude Jacques Elibert.
Revelations that have reported the illegitimate appropriation of movable property of the public institution, said ECC demanding that light be shed on this issue within a reasonable time.

This would establish the occurrence of acts of corruption provided for by the law of March 12, 2014.
“How to understand that the management of a public institution that deals with confidential and sensitive data of citizens, is entrusted to people of questionable integrity,” criticized this grouping of organizations in a statement.

The human rights activists say they are in favor of prosecuting the perpetrators and accomplices of these acts of corruption if they are found.

Further on, ECC underlines that corruption scandals have already been recorded at the level of the ONI, citing in particular the Dermalog case. This structure, which questions the silence of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ULCC), urges this institution to take its mission in hand.
In addition, ECC recalls that Jude Jacques Elibert had lied repeatedly to the nation during his hearing in December 2018 in the Senate of the Republic around the Dermalog case.
For human rights defenders, it was an act of sabotage perpetrated at the level of the ONI.

“What happened at the ONI, has discredited the institution and reinforces the citizen’s demand to urgently carry out its technical and institutional audit,” they said in this statement dated December 27 bearing the signature of the president of ECC, Jocelyne Colas, a copy of which reached ZoomHaïtiNews.