Jordan Times
Monday, September 5, 2005
Lower House committee
discusses SETP issue with senior officials
AMMAN (Petra) — The Lower House committee tasked with investigating the finances
of the Socio-Economic Transformation Plan (SETP) met yesterday with Minister of
Planning and International Cooperation (MoPIC) Suhair Al-Ali, Finance Minister
Adel Kodah, Audit Bureau President Salem Khazaleh and other officials.
Deputy Mefleh Ruheimi (Jerash), head of the 11-member committee, said the officials responded to the committee's questions that focused on the Enhanced Productivity Centres Programme which operates under the SETP.
He said the deputies would meet in morning and evening sessions today to speed up the investigation process. The committee was formed in August to probe the SETP record of expenditures between 2001-2004. The SETP was launched in 2001 with the goal of accelerating the pace of social and economic reforms and raising the quality of citizens' living standards. The programme has been administered by the MoPIC.