Kuwait climbs two notches in GDI 2020

Ranks 4th among MENA countries

KUWAIT CITY, Nov 27: Kuwait climbed two notches in the Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI) 2020 released by Transparency International Defence and Security recently, as the country ranked fourth among countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region compared to sixth in 2015, reports Al-Qabas daily.

Head of Transparency Society Majed Al-Metairie said that despite this improvement, Kuwait remains in the ‘very high risk of corruption’ band. He attributed the improvement to good governmental steps taken in the past five years since the issuance of the last index in 2015.

Deputy Director General of Fire Prevention Sector Major General Khaled Abdullah headed a sudden inspection campaign on the process of refining and storing inflammable liquid materials in all vocational areas, which resulted in the issuance of a number of citations and warnings.

In a press release, Major General Khaled Al-Abdullah said the presence of such inflammable liquid materials represent a danger to the lives and properties of people as well as the environment if in case they catch fire.

He said, “We are working on coordinating with the concerned governmental authorities to remove such materials from vocational areas and relocated them to distant industrial areas”.

He affirmed that the campaign will continue in all governorates of Kuwait.

It is worth mentioning that a number of in-charge officers from the Fire Prevention sector and police officers from different governorates had accompanied Major General Khaled Abdullah.