It is suspected that more than 22 engineers and employees have resigned from the Jeddah Mayoralty recently because they fear being prosecuted in connection with last year's Jeddah floods, according to a source. Mayor Adel Fakeih has accepted the resignations of the employees, who worked in various ranks. The Jeddah flood disaster last November left a number of people dead and widespread damage to cars and property. Prosecutions are now under way in terms of a Royal Order. The source said some of the employees have service records of between 20 to 25 years. Work at the mayoralty has been affected by the resignations. Meanwhile, the committee at the Commission for Investigation and Prosecution (CIP), which is investigating the Jeddah flood disaster, has acquitted Nasser Al-Mit'eb, who was working as head of Al-Leeth Mayoralty, before being transferred to another position. He has been cleared of any wrongdoing in connection with the disaster and has since been reinstated. “No evidence was found of his involvement in flood cases or in another case in which he had been a suspect,” informed sources at the investigative agency said. In another development, a number of employees at the mayoralty and subsidiary municipalities are angry because two employees have been exempted from a new fingerprint system that was introduced recently. According to some sources, the two employees are the official who introduced the system and his office director. The two were exempted on the basis that they have been seconded from a private sector company and that their office hours are from 10 A.M. to 6 P.M.
