Mann Chhoeun (R) shows his outburst in one of Phnom Penh City Hall's meetings.By Khmerization
Source: CEN
Prime Minister Hun Sen has appointed Mr. Nuon Sumedh, ex-cabinet officer of Phnom Penh City Hall, as Phnom Penh's Deputy Governor in place of Mr. Mann Chhoeun who held the position since 2003, reports Cambodian Express News.
According to the report, Mr. Mann Chhoeun's position was made vacant because he had reached the age of retirement. However, it seemed he was forced to resign or had been removed by Mr. Hun Sen because Mr. Mann Chhoeun said he was given another position as Vice-President of National Committee for Population and Development under the Council of Ministers.
Mr. Mann Chhoeun said, during his tenure as Phnom Penh's Governor, he had created 569 associations of slum-dwellers, but at the end of 2009 there were left only 280 associations because the majority of Phnom Penh's associations of slum-dwellers had integrated with the base communities. He added that during his tenure, he had cut the rate of poverty in Phnom Penh by a big margin, saying the poverty rate in Phnom Penh now is only 0.4%.
He said that, at the beginning of its inception, the National Committee for Population and Development has been give a budget of 5 million riels ($1,500) by Prime Minister Hun Sen as a credit scheme to lend money to poor people and small businesses to start up their businesses and livelihood as a mean to alleviate poverty. He said, now the budget has been increased to 886 million riels ($220,000). He said, currently, his committee has been working in 17 provinces to provide credits and loans to people as a means to reduce poverty rate.
Mann Chhoeun has been accused by local NGOs and opposition activists as the mastermind and a force behind of the many brutal and forced evictions in Phnom Penh slum communities where many slum-dwellers were forcibly evicted with little or no compensation. Some of the evictions, notably the evictions of residents of Dey Krahorm, were personally led by Mr. Mann Chhoeun himself.
Source: CEN
Prime Minister Hun Sen has appointed Mr. Nuon Sumedh, ex-cabinet officer of Phnom Penh City Hall, as Phnom Penh's Deputy Governor in place of Mr. Mann Chhoeun who held the position since 2003, reports Cambodian Express News.
According to the report, Mr. Mann Chhoeun's position was made vacant because he had reached the age of retirement. However, it seemed he was forced to resign or had been removed by Mr. Hun Sen because Mr. Mann Chhoeun said he was given another position as Vice-President of National Committee for Population and Development under the Council of Ministers.
Mr. Mann Chhoeun said, during his tenure as Phnom Penh's Governor, he had created 569 associations of slum-dwellers, but at the end of 2009 there were left only 280 associations because the majority of Phnom Penh's associations of slum-dwellers had integrated with the base communities. He added that during his tenure, he had cut the rate of poverty in Phnom Penh by a big margin, saying the poverty rate in Phnom Penh now is only 0.4%.
He said that, at the beginning of its inception, the National Committee for Population and Development has been give a budget of 5 million riels ($1,500) by Prime Minister Hun Sen as a credit scheme to lend money to poor people and small businesses to start up their businesses and livelihood as a mean to alleviate poverty. He said, now the budget has been increased to 886 million riels ($220,000). He said, currently, his committee has been working in 17 provinces to provide credits and loans to people as a means to reduce poverty rate.
Mann Chhoeun has been accused by local NGOs and opposition activists as the mastermind and a force behind of the many brutal and forced evictions in Phnom Penh slum communities where many slum-dwellers were forcibly evicted with little or no compensation. Some of the evictions, notably the evictions of residents of Dey Krahorm, were personally led by Mr. Mann Chhoeun himself.
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