For everything that was done in the Skadar Lake National Park, there are written traces and numerous witnesses, so the administration's story that I was fired due to incompetence does not stand, the former head of the Protection Service in that national park, Dražen Ivanović, told "Vijesta" yesterday.
He reacted to the announcement from NP Skadarsko jezero, in which they wrote that he was not fired because of politics, but because he did not do his job satisfactorily.
They claim that Ivanović's bad work was suggested by the public and many non-governmental organizations dealing with environmental protection.
Ivanović, however, previously accused the director of the National Parks of Montenegro and the official of the Social Democrats (SD), Elvir Klica, of preparing his dismissal because he refused to gather votes for that party...
"Every time I caught an influential poacher, Elvir Klica would 'endure' the pressure to hide me, which he himself admitted to me," Dražen Ivanović said, among other things, in response to statements from the National Parks
"Several times I have submitted reports to the NPCG administration and the working body for preventing poaching in the Ministry of Agriculture, of which I have been a member since day one. In those reports I described the disastrous state of the lake, the corruption in the NP and the need for new people and fast boats. "None of that was respected even after so many years, instead intensive work was done to destroy Lake Skadar", announced Ivanovic.
Since the arrival of Klica, he claims, there has been a "dark age of personnel": "The best example is the appointment of one director, who had only a thick file to recommend and, among other things, a disciplinary punishment for stealing tickets from Plavnica..."
"It is common knowledge that I myself often went out on patrols and thus produced results for the Protection Service. Every time I caught an influential poacher, Elvir Klica would 'endure' the pressure to take me away, which he himself admitted to me. His very intelligent solution is already widely known - through the appointment of a second head of the protection service, which was imposed on him by DPS Zeta and local influential poachers. He found the justification for that move with the already well-known labor inspector, who legalized all that (and a lot of other things) for him," Ivanović said.
He claims that he tried several times, through the institutions of the system, to achieve justice: "But in vain." In this and such a system, the law was not respected and the charges were always dismissed".
He called the information that he was ever disciplined or that proceedings were conducted against him untrue.
On the same day as Ivanović, the supervisor at Skadar Lake, Veliša Miranović, was also dismissed - he was then informed that the contract he received before the election would not be extended.
After that, he came to the newsroom of "Vijesti" and told that jobs in that public company are given to politically eligible people: "That is, those who agreed to agitate for the Social Democrats, gather safe votes for Ivan Brajović's party and those who are ready to turn a blind eye to poaching."
After them, former supervisor Aleksandar Lubarda spoke to "Vijesti", also saying that the main asset for getting a job in the Public Enterprise National Parks of Montenegro is membership in the SD and collecting votes for them. Klica denied all that, saying that there was no politics in any case, but that inaction was the main reason for the disagreement with Ivanovic and Lubard.
Miranović's contract was not extended, according to him, because there was no need for it.
"We completely reject all allegations that have any connection with politics," NPCG replied to "Vijesti" earlier.
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