In his annual address to the Majlisi Oli (parliament) of Tajikistan on December 21, President Emomali Rahmon, in addition to inappropriate boasting, made several strange analogies and even outright lied. Photo: Internet In his address, Emomali Rahmon stated: “In addition to this, over the past 20 years, 138,000 hectares of land have been distributed, including […]
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In his annual address to the Majlisi Oli (parliament) of Tajikistan on December 21, President Emomali Rahmon, in addition to inappropriate boasting, made several strange analogies and even outright lied.
Photo: Internet
In his address, Emomali Rahmon stated: “In addition to this, over the past 20 years, 138,000 hectares of land have been distributed, including 52,000 hectares of irrigated land to 1 million 400 thousand families for housing construction. That is, 8 million 800 thousand residents of the country have had the opportunity to improve their living conditions.”
With these words, President Emomali Rahmon is both lying and skillfully covering up the crimes of many of his subordinates and government officials. About 80% of this land was illegally sold to the population directly through government officials.
In another part of his speech, Emomali Rahmon emphasized: “If in 1991 the number of telephone subscribers was only 277 thousand people, then in 2021 the number of mobile phone subscribers alone reached over 8 million people.”
Here, too, Emomali Rahmon is lying and making an inappropriate analogy. Firstly, this is simply ridiculous. Thirty years ago, modern mobile phones did not exist at all; there were only radio phones. The official population of Tajikistan is about 9 million 600 thousand people. Of these, 20% are children under 6 years old. Moreover, over 2 million 200 thousand of them live abroad as labor migrants. That means 9.6-20% = 7.68-2.2 = 5.68. This indicates that almost all mobile operator subscribers in Tajikistan have two or three SIM cards, or Emomali Rahmon, consciously or unconsciously, is providing false and exaggerated data. The number of active mobile network subscribers in Tajikistan is estimated to be about 4 million, no more.
Another lie stated in the address is the creation of 200 thousand enterprises over 30 years of independence. Rahmon claimed that his government, and certainly thanks to his “wise policy,” has managed to create 200 thousand jobs and provide employment for the population during his 30-year rule.
However, if we pay attention and count, if these 200 thousand enterprises employed 25 people each, then there would currently be 2.5 million Tajiks employed in the country. That is, today there would not be a single Tajik labor migrant abroad, and on the contrary, migrants from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan would be coming to our country.
Photo: Internet