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19 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 9 SEPTEMBER 2018 An organic matter If I hear the word 'skart' I'll cut off my ears, honestly. Take a woman who lives in a flat and who has a kitchen like a doll's house. Imagine her placing a number of boxes all over the place which makes it even harder for her to move around. A box of peeled potatoes, a box of peeled carrots, maybe another for the cat litter. How ridiculous can one get? Isn't life complicated enough to make it even more? With this particular woman having to hurry because she just finished work and her husband will be home in an hour, all this peeling and finding the right box will definitely take a lot of her time. How very practical! Whoever invented these 'skart' boxes must have a 'skart' box for a mind. Valerie Borg, Valletta Libya Audit Bureau investigations On 29 May, 2018, MaltaToday reported in the report "Malta firms accused of 'currency smuggling' by Libyan Audit Bureau", that Akakus International was one of several companies investigated by the LAB. Akakus International Company Ltd would like to clarify that on 31 July 2018, it received a letter from the Attorney General's Office of the State of Libya, Alsaddiq Ahmed Alsour, which was communicated to the Governor of the Libya Central Bank, with reference to investiga- tions into the complaint by Hamza Ahmad Faid Abdallah Daoub in his position as Commissioner General of Al Roiya Al Bahida for the impor- tation of food product, against the Libyan Audit Bureau. On this complaint, Akakus ac- counts were frozen. Consequently, the freezing of the accounts of the above-mentioned company have been lifted along with those of the General Com- missioner of the Company Hamza Ahmad Faid Abdallah Daoub as well as all sanctions on Akakus Interna- tional Company Ltd overseas ben- eficiary accredited and included in the records of the Head of the Audit Bureau. Jonathan Mizzi Akakus International Projects for the collective good There is consensus that some sort of 'Central link Project' is necessary , not least to reduce the heavy, clogged traffic that is choking Attard with air and noise pollution. However, it is also obvious that the project takes a different form from that which the Agency of Infrastructure is proposing, as the objectives of any bypass are to facilitate traffic flow and to divert pollution away from urban areas. PD has carefully analysed what is being proposed and has come to the conclusion that the Attard Residents' Environmental Network's proposals should be the back- bone of the upcoming project. It is clear that a proper, four-lane el- evated bypass that can be built over ex- isting country roads joining the Mriehel and Zebbug bypasses would reduce trav- elling time from the Rabat-Mosta area and vice-versa, reduce air pollution in Attard, cater for any expected increase in daily traffic in the new business parks in Mriehel as well as potentially reduce the traffic congestion in the Qormi bypass and Mdina Road, thus reducing pollution also in this area. As this would be built as an elevated road over existing roads and the quarry, it would also reduce the uptake of 48,000sq.m of arable land and avoid the uprooting of 170 mature trees and many more. We support the Attard Residents' Environmental Network. Marcus Lauri, Partit Demokratiku Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications