Supermen and Kuwaiti engineer
The Kuwait Society of Engineers has announced that it has discovered ten thousand engineers holding fake degrees in various disciplines; that they have failed the engineering tests carried out by the Society and that the Society has discovered that these engineers hold degrees which are either fake, or their degrees are not authentic or are issued by universities which are not recognized by Kuwait and that these engineers have been referred to the Public Prosecution to look into the issue.
The number 10,000 in one body and in a small country like Kuwait whose population does not exceed four million, is a number that only gives goose bumps but it is terrifying, and indicates the degree of mischief and the level of corruption.
Even if we take half of it, and if we look at the other side of the same coin and look at teachers who claim to have specialized in dozens of disciplines, trainers, surveyors, pharmacists, nurses, accountants, lawyers, etc, etc and add to the list the muezzins, preachers, imams of mosques, bankers, chemists, masseuses, pilots, air and naval navigators, broadcasters, translators, and others male and female, it is enough to come to the senses and realize the miserable situation in which we find ourselves and another issue which is haunting in the forged nationality and identity.
The situation continues to be catastrophic, and it affects negatively every activity and work. It is not in the interest of the country’s development, or those who hold genuine certificates, or in morals and norms, especially since revealing the truth is not difficult if there is intention available because where there is a will there is a way.
There are dozens of unions and NGOs and a majority or people that have been mentioned above affiliated to them, so it is the duty of the government to ask the boards of directors of these bodies to conduct their assessments and tests, and give their opinion on the validity of the certificates of all their members and affiliates, citizens and residents without any exception.
I say this because I have learned that the Society of Engineers, on its own initiative, conducted proficiency tests for every resident engineer, but at the government’s request, some citizens were excluded from proficiency tests, even if they have graduated from private university in Kuwait where the residents graduated from.
A majority of these universities are not recognized internationally or locally, but the government looks with “sympathy” towards the citizen, and with suspicion at the resident.
This means, in a nutshell, marked by more anxiety, that some bodies in the Society or the government believe that the citizen, who graduated from a university that is not recognized locally, can design a house and ensures the ceiling will not collapse in future on the heads of those residing in it. But if the engineer is not a Kuwaiti, the ceiling will fall on the heads of those living inside it.
Note: We mentioned in an article Thursday that there is a villa in Al-Zahra dedicated to the Moon Sighting Committee, which turned out to be really a villa for not what we believe, but rather a place where the atmosphere is provided for the divorced persons to see their children, away from the courts and police stations.
We thank the Ministry of Justice for contacting and clarifying, and we apologize for the confusion.