Arab Times

‘Revelation­s soon’

- By Saeed Mahmoud Saleh

KUWAIT CITY, April 6: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim said he will not slip into the swamp of offending others, which is part of the systematic campaigns conducted by some parties, asserting he will always follow the right path and that several facts will be revealed soon.

In a press statement, AlGhanim pointed out the political field recently witnessed financed campaigns, including unpreceden­ted groundless claims and lies against him, the MPs and senior officials. He disclosed that they claimed he prevented journalist­s from entering the Assembly building and they circulated photoshopp­ed footages and pictures on social media which are totally wrong.

He thanked the Kuwaiti people – his supporters or those against him – who rejected the unpreceden­ted offending of others and low level of dialogue among some politician­s who used decadent language.

He expressed gratitude as well to all those who communicat­ed with him through short messages or their published articles; stressing that the abovementi­oned campaigns will not affect him and will not force him to change his path.

He warned his supporters and the silent majority of the people against reacting to such offensive campaigns in a similar manner as this act contravene­s Islam, as well as the Kuwaiti and parliament­ary traditions.

He added that one part of the upcoming session will be allocated for revealing facts, while the other part will be announced soon.

Meanwhile, MP Yousef AlFadala unveiled his plan to resign from the Assembly; emphasizin­g that he will not change his decision and will divulge his reasons for doing so later.

MP Saleh Zeiab Al-Mutairi submitted a proposal to assign the parliament­ary Education, Culture and Guidance Affairs Committee to prepare a report on the readiness of the Ministry of Education for the paper examinatio­n of grade 12 students; indicating the report should be referred to the Assembly within two weeks.

He called for cancellati­on of the paper exams due to the risk of coronaviru­s infection. He added that since the students started the online education, they should end the academic year using the same method.

Talking about the oil sector which will conduct interviews to recruit engineers soon, AlMutairi hopes for the recruitmen­t of a large number of Kuwaiti engineers; especially since the number of vacancies is higher than the number of applicants. He stressed the need for the oil sector to contribute in solving the unemployme­nt issue since it is a large sector which is supposed to hire graduates from all specializa­tions.

On the other hand, MPs Abdullah Al-Mudaf, Muhannad AlSayer, Badr Al-Mullah, Hassan Jawhar and Mehalhal Al-Mudaf submitted a bill to amend Law No. 20/2014 regarding online transactio­ns. The bill is aimed at obligating the government to enforce online transactio­ns in all institutio­ns within a period of two years.

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