The Sirte security force was let down by all Libyan components including the Presidential Council, which formed it, the senior leader of the force - which is part of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos, Ali Rafida, has revealed.
He added on Sunday that the Presidential Council is to blame for lack of logistic support, which led to inability to do security work in Sirte, saying treatment and salary payments for the force's personnel have been neglected for over eight months.
"We are trying to support the state institution in Sirte to be able to defend and protect the city, but the fact that people are not coming to their jobs had hindered the resumption of services in the city." Rafida added.
Meanwhile, the media office of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsoos said on Facebook Sunday that Mohammed Al-Haddad - the commander of the central military zone and appointed by the Presidential Council - checked on the Sirte security forces that are installed on all the city's entrances and up to eastern Sirte.
"We will talk to the concerned authorities for the needed support to fight off IS militants," the commander told the forces, according to the media office.
Terrorists from the Islamic State (IS) controlled Saturday evening the district of Wadi Al-Hamar - 90 km away from Sirte - and according to eyewitnesses, they set up checkpoints and kidnapped at least three people, after they had been on a hit-and-run style of appearance for awhile.
Meanwhile, Haftar's forces announced a month ago that they controlled all central Libya's area, which starts from eastern Sirte, attempting to attack Sirte twice, one of which was a simultaneous attack with IS (Haftar's forces from the east and IS from the south.)
