The projects of the Saudi crown prince are loud and empty

According to the report of the international group of Fars news agency, quoted by Saudi Leaks, Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia continues to deceive the people of his country with the illusion of launching a series of development projects; While, despite the big media advertisements, many of these projects have been abandoned half-finished and some have not been turned on at all.

The fact is that Mohammed bin Salman has made a fuss about dozens of projects with his various media arms; But the statistics say something else about it.

In fact, a series of projects that the Saudi government had approved in the framework of the development plan for non-dependence on oil, have been forgotten, and some others are lagging behind and limping, and some of them have only spent a lot of money without bringing any benefit.

In countries that are governed by people’s representatives, the non-implementation of projects requires clarifying the reasons that hindered the implementation of the project or the delay in its implementation, and the offenders are introduced to committees to answer.

For those who live in Saudi Arabia, the false promises of Mohammed bin Salman continue and the empty drums are still played, and there is no news of accountability for those responsible for the failure of these projects and the loss of the treasury.

In 2018, the Saudi Public Investment Fund announced the Amala project as a luxury tourist destination on the coast of the Red Sea; But with the failure of the implementation of this project, the lies continued and it was said that the first phase will be opened in 2024.

The construction project of King Salman’s Energy City (Spark) has also been full of lies and empty promises. Saudi Arabia announced this project in 2018 and said that its work will end in 2021, but 2023 has arrived and the false promises about this project continue by saying that it will be done soon, even though it has been two years since its opening.

The ridiculous point in this context, which exposes the government’s lie, is Spark’s announcement of signing a contract to build a residential complex and a labor village at the end of 2022, while it was announced that the project would open in 2021.

Despite the passage of more than four years since the start of the project, the Saudi media did not publish the real images of the city and, like Al-Sharq Al-Awsat newspaper, settled for an imaginary scene of it.

Regarding the Red Sea project, Al Saud had announced that it would be inaugurated in 2022, but later announced that it would be inaugurated in 2023.

The same promises were repeated about the airport of the Red Sea project in such a way that in early 2020, images were published that apparently announced the start of work to prepare the ground for the airport, and at the end of the same year it was announced that its opening would be at the end of 2022. In 2022, it was announced that the opening will be in the first quarter of the next year, and a few months later, they poured clean water on everyone’s hands and said that the full opening will be in 2024.

Regarding the King Salman Bridge, in 2016, Mohammed bin Salman, pointing out that specialized teams are working on the preparation of the bridge, announced that the cornerstone of the King Salman Bridge between Saudi Arabia and Egypt will be laid before 2020; But still no traces of the beginning of this project can be seen and for a long time there is no mention of this project.

About the new Al-Jawf airport in 2018, the Saudis announced that Al-Jawf airport is going to become international, and after four years, they say they have reached an agreement with the company that is going to build it.

The construction project of Al-Qadiyeh city is another example of half-finished projects, the first stage of which was said to be opened in 2022, then it was announced in the middle of 2022 that this project will be finished in 2023.

In 2016, it was announced that the Al-Qunfudah airport project had been handed over, and in 2017, it was announced that the implementation of the project would begin in early 2018. Then the Saudi Civil Aviation Organization announced the deadline for receiving the request of contractors for this project. In early December 2018, they announced that Khalid al-Faisal Kalang would break ground on the project and that its implementation would last for two years, but all of this remained mere words.

The same lie was repeated about the tourist airport of Farasan Islands, which was announced to be ready by 2020; But after a year of advertising on the project, there was no more news about it.

There are dozens of half-finished or stopped projects in Saudi Arabia, and these are in addition to dozens of new projects that Mohammed bin Salman promised to implement, and it seems that the situation is the same as the previous ones.

While the media machine of the Bin Salman regime continues to beat the drum of absurd development projects, billions of the Saudi nation’s money and budget are wasted.

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