Eurasia Press & News
The municipal court in Novi Pazar ordered the town’s management to pay 6 million dinars from the city budget to the “Sadrvan” restaurant, more famous as “Jonuz’s Kebab Shop”, for kebabs eaten between 2004 and 2008, during the mandate of the former authorities.
The current authorities say this is only one of the many debts left behind by the former municipal authorities, who they say, spent budget resources in a “non-gentlemanly manner”.
“The owners of Sadrvan have not been paid for over 400,000 eaten kebabs to this very day,” say representatives from the city public attorney’s office.
The bill for kebabs and meals eaten at the Sadrvan restaurant arrived at the city management’s office and was based on an invoice submitted to the municipal court.
The city’s public attorney Hedija Skrijelj said another three well known Novi Pazar restaurants also plan to submit requests for payments of debts for drinks and meals eaten by the representatives of the former authorities.
Current representatives from the city management wonder how the previous authorities accrued such a large bill, and contest that the amount owed should be paid from the city budget without taking the case to court. “Until the court has its final say, it remains a mystery that is difficult to solve. How is it possible to make such a big bill, which has to be paid from the city budget,” a representative from the city management said.
Skrijelj said she will file a complaint to court. “In court we will establish who was signing those bills and who was eating those meals,” said Skrijelj.
Owners of Sadrvan declined to answer questions from the press related to this case.
But far from being shamed by the incident, the current opposition, who were the former authorities in the town, has leapt on the case as a way to attack the current administration.
“If counting kebabs after 8 months in power is this coalition’s greatest achievement, then there is no comment for this stupidity,” said Enis Imamovic, the spokesperson for Bosniak Ticket for European Sandzak of Sulejman Ugljanin, adding that the current authorities should deal with more pressing issues than kebabs.
Since July, the new authorities in Novi Pazar are made of a coalition led by the Sandzak Democratic Party of Rasim Ljajic together with United Serbian Ticket. Until the May elections, Sulejman Ugljanin’s Ticket For Sandzak was in power in this town.
Skirmishes between these two political options have been going on for years.
