On this day, October 16, 2017, Dr. Haider al-Abadi gave an orders to the Iraqi Forces to enter Kirkuk governorate and the disputed areas to impose law, without shedding a single drop of blood, after it was a political deal that corrupt people traded with, as the oil fields in the governorate were controlled after the corrupt have been controlling it for years.

Dr. Al-Abadi appointed a new governor to the city after its governor fled. Not only that, but Dr. Al-Abadi took other decisions, including reducing the region’s proportion of the budget to 12%, similar to the rest of the Iraqi governorates and according to population ratios. Dr. Al-Abadi also banned international flights to and from Erbil and Sulaymaniyah airports, until the region submits to handing over the administration of the federal authority with all border crossings in the region according to the constitution.

Dr. Al-Abadi also sent committees from the Federal Financial Supervision and the Integrity Commission to audit the region’s employees to hand them salaries, thousands of fake employees were discovered, and this was the first time that committees from the federal government enter the region for the purpose of auditing since 1991, the correct salaries have been paid to our citizens in the region.