{"id":815592,"date":"2026-08-16T14:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815592\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:30:16","slug":"electricity-minister-dismisses-senior-official-over-poor-performance-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/815592\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity Minister dismisses senior official over poor performance &#8211; Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-08-16T11:33:39+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq News- Baghdad<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s Minister of Electricity, Ali Saadi Wahib, dismissed Nizar Qahtan Hassan as Director General of the ministry&#8217;s Training and Energy Research Department, citing his failure to perform his official duties.<\/p>\n<p>According to an official document, Hassan was reassigned to a position one grade below the rank he held before becoming director general.<\/p>\n<p>Wahib took office as electricity minister in May 2026 under Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi&#8217;s government. Since then, he has dismissed several officials, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shafaq.com\/en\/Security\/Electricity-Ministry-dismisses-officials-over-forged-deals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">including<\/a> the general manager of the Central Electricity Distribution Company, Alaa Samir, and his office director, over corruption allegations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Iraq\/Iraqi-authorities-detain-31-in-weekly-corruption-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more: Iraqi authorities detain 31 in weekly corruption cases<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-16T11:33:39+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Baghdad Iraq&#8217;s Minister of Electricity, Ali Saadi Wahib,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[16993,4,450,16358,346162,451,2539,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-815592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-electricity","tag-electricity-minister-dismisses-senior-official-over-poor-performance","tag-headlines","tag-layoffs","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=815592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}