President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev instructed Prime Minister Alihan Smailov to consider the possibility of returning troubled energy assets in the country’s cities to state ownership. The press secretary of the Kazakh leader Ruslan Zheldibay wrote about this on his Facebook page (the owner of the Meta company was recognized as an extremist and banned in Russia), commenting on the emergency at the Ekibastuz thermal power plant in the Pavlodar region. TASS.
According to him, “due to the poor quality of management” of such assets, “accidents and interruptions in the supply of electricity to consumers” occur.
According to Zheldibay, Tokayev took with particular concern the interruption of heat supply to the population in Ekibastuz.
“To them [жителям] assistance will be provided. According to the head of state, complicating the lives of citizens and violating their rights is unacceptable. The government of the Pavlodar region and its akimat (administration. – Gazeta.ru) have been instructed to normalize the situation in Ekibastuz in the coming days and bring to justice those who let a critical situation arise in the city. .
formerly Tokayev signed Decree “On measures for the return to the state of assets illegally recovered”.
This decree was created to return to Kazakhstan the assets illegally taken out of the country, as well as to identify and return illegally obtained assets.