“Rifi abided by the law and by a Cabinet decision and has maintained public property by preventing any technical team from dismantling the third cellular network at the Telecoms Ministry,” said the source.
Security forces, dispatched by Rifi, prevented Telecoms Minister Charbel Nahhas and ministry technicians from entering the Telecoms Ministry with the aim of transferring equipment belonging to OGERO to the facilities of mtc-touch.
Interior Minister Ziyad Baroud, who had issued orders that the security forces withdraw from the facility, absolved himself of his ministerial duties over the incident.
The Lebanese Army has since taken over control of the Telecoms Ministry building in Adliyeh, east Beirut.
President Michel Sleiman ordered Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar take judicial measures over Rifi’s part in the Telecoms Ministry row.
“Rifi did not violate Baroud’s decision nor did he rebel against him as has been alleged,” the source said.
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