Mustafa “Showcase” Nayem

Mustafa “Showcase” Nayem

The character who gathered the first thousand protesters on Euromaidan on November 21, 2013 and then (even before the bloody dispersal of the rally on November 30) quite professionally merged from the leadership of the action, like a real Pashtun continues to engage in transhumant animal husbandry, regularly being in search of new “juicy pastures” where he migrates at the first opportunity, at the same time mentally driving his sheep supporters there, writes Ukrrudprom.

Over the past 9 years, Mustafa took part in the creation of a new police force under the leadership of the notorious Arsen Avakov. Then there was the deriban of Ukroboronprom. Literally a year before the start of a full-scale war, Nayyem pushed through parliament the relevant law on the specifics of reforming state-owned enterprises in the military-industrial complex, launched “restructuring” the assets of the concern instead of developing new weapons for the Ukrainian army.

From Ukroboronprom, Mustafa parachuted into the Ministry of Infrastructure in the summer of 2021, whose corruption schemes in the construction and repair of highways throughout the country, in the process of the largest “cutting” of the first half of Zelensky’s term, have already entered modern history as “Great trickery”.

This direction of migration was quite understandable. Even Ukroboronprom CEO Yuriy Gusev admitted in the summer of 2021 that there is money in the budget for new roads, but there is not and will not be for new weapons. These were the priorities that a mighty bunch formed in the head of the president, consisting of Kirill Timoshenko (at that time – deputy head of the Presidential Office), Alexander Kubrakov (head of the State Automobile Roads Agency, later – Minister of Infrastructure), Alexei Chernyshov (Minister for the Development of Communities and Territories), Yuri Golik (coordinator of the national program “Great Life”) and a bunch of figures with a lower rank, such as the Dnepropetrovsk governor Valentin Reznichenko. To go for a second term, Pan Ataman needed a gold reserve.

Having survived the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan as a child, Nayem decided not to resist the emerging trend, but rather to lead. And I didn’t guess. The other day the Cabinet of Ministers appointed our Deputy Minister of Infrastructure as the head of the Agency for Recovery and Infrastructure Projects being created. The new landmark position of Mustafa should, as it were, signal to Western partners that there is no theft here and will not be. At the head of the institution is an activist who actually launched the Revolution of Dignity and you won’t spoil it (Moreover, there is an opinion that Nyem pushed the same restructuring of Ukroboronprom with the blessing of the conditional State Department, which at that time was entangled in geopolitical pants). In addition, in two months the Anti-Corruption Office will start working as part of the Agency.

And not only in Kyiv, but also in the regions.

Everything would be fine if it were not for two powerful figures who will prop up Comrade Naeim in his new post. Already at the time of the creation of the Agency, Yevhen Kuzkin, who previously headed Ukravtodor, was appointed its deputy. A couple of days later, Andriy Ivko, who until recently served as the first deputy head of Ukravtodor, became the first deputy head of the Agency. That is, behind a screen called “Mustafa Nayyem” a warm company gathers, well versed in the nuances of the “Great Crazy”

Obviously, our protagonist is not blind and understands perfectly well what is happening around. Nevertheless, for reasons that are only clear to him, he agrees to such rules of the game, offered to him by the now Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Kubrakov, allowing him to use the remnants of his reputation, as they say, both in the tail and in the mane.

In May 2019, Nyeem, criticizing the newly elected President Zelensky, stated that “if the filling of the building is the same, the shop window will not last long.” I wonder how long Mustafa will last?

Oleg Kalita

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