Demands to Keep the Ministry of Minerals Separate

Sudan Events – Nahid Oshi

The former Director General of the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company, an expert in the field of the mining industry, Engineer Mujahid Al-Bilal, has called for the necessity of keeping the Ministry of Minerals as a separate ministry in the expected government formation, indicating in an interview with (Sudan Events) that the Ministry of Minerals is one of the ministries that will be responsible for the reconstruction of Sudan after the end of the war in particular. It pumps into the state budget no less than $350 million annually. It also supervises no less than 50% of the value of the country’s exports, while managing operating budgets for companies and miners within the state’s economic cycle amounting to no less than $2 billion annually, criticizing the fluctuation of previous government decisions regarding the Ministry of Minerals, where the ministry fluctuated between individuals, merging with another ministry six times in a short period, five of which took place within six years in different eras, with a decision for each year.
He attributed the matter to the lack of the presence of stakeholders and the departments of specialized institutions for each sector in these deliberations, so the standards are always inadequate, as he put it.
He said that the country will emerge from a state of war that is exhausting and destructive to the infrastructure. There are major sectors that before the war represented great challenges, such as oil and electricity. It is a mistake to merge minerals with them because these are files of complexity that need to be constantly presented in senior meetings, and their issues are present, whether at the council level. Ministers or the Sovereign Council.