‘Employ competent Kuwaiti cadres for reform, brighter future’
“MOST countries have national competencies and many of them provide studies and consultations for their country and rely on them in various fields of interest on economic, financial, administrative, social, health and other fields,” columnist Abdullah Al-Abduljader wrote for Al-Anba daily.
“These studies and consultations come from the reality of their country and the competencies have practical experience and live this reality with viable suggestions and recommendations at a minimum cost.
“I mentioned the above because our country still depends and agrees with foreign consulting companies and international organizations and appoints foreign and expatriate consultants to provide studies and consultations on local issues related to the economy, finance, administrative, social, health and others.
“And these will depend on information, data and statistics from government agencies, and then provide their advice with recommendations and suggestions that may be unrealistic and not applicable, and on top of this they collect dust in the drawers if government officers, although millions of dinars have been paid from public money for these studies and consultations, and this has been done and continues to be done and the big question is ‘Why’? Is there a private benefit to earn from public money?
“For example, it was published in local Kuwaiti newspapers last week that the General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning has cooperated with the World Bank to conduct a study on the index of public (governmental) institutions in Kuwait regarding employment, promotion, performance, training, and the government’s dependence on foreign and expatriate advisors due to the lack of Kuwaiti competencies.
“This is not true because Kuwaiti consultants with the qualifications, and experiences are many, but unfortunately the government always relies upon contracts with foreign and expatriate consultants, and again I ask ‘Why’?
“The report talked about organizational structures and everything that was mentioned in the World Bank report, I have personally mentioned in my previous articles for free, and not by paying millions of Kuwaiti dinars to international companies or organizations to carry out such studies and consultations.
“Advice and a suggestion for the new Kuwaiti government 2022; ‘If you want to implement and work on correcting the path and reforming our beloved country, you must use Kuwaiti national competencies that have experiences and qualifications in the field of consulting, and these are available, among retirees and Kuwaiti employees of government agencies’.
“They will provide you with studies, realistic advice, recommendations and viable suggestions, at a much lower cost than what you pay foreign consultants and international organizations.
“I hope that this message will reach the Prime Minister, His Highness Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and the government, as well as the Speaker of the National Assembly and its members, and we see the positives and applications to serve the country and the citizen.”
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“In most of the previous parliamentary elections for the positions of the National Assembly, including the election of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker, and others, accusations and rumors fly in all directions about political money and bribe having the center stage when one candidate is favored over another. The reason for this is that the elections for those parliamentary positions and committees are conducted in secret,” columnist Oweid Al-Salili wrote for AlShahed daily.
“In the new parliament, there is a tendency by a group of deputies to amend the bylaws of the National Assembly so that its deputies move away from the circle of suspicion and accusations by amending the regulations so that all positions of the parliament’s office are voted on publicly, in addition to the parliamentary committees so that the representative is an observer and responsible for all his statements and positions and his votes in the parliament are before public opinion and the electorate so that he will be held accountable when he votes for those who do not deserve the position and until the principle of transparency is achieved, which the National Assembly and its deputies must abide by.
“Amending the bylaw of the National Assembly is considered one of the most important priorities of the members of the National Assembly during the current period and before any other law, because this bylaw has been horribly exploited in the previous period and has become a stumbling block in front of the aspirations of popular public opinion in an unprecedented manner with flimsy pretexts represented in not violating the law and the regulation and this is something that cannot be tolerated or ignored to amend it with the required speed.
“Among the laws that must come after the amendment of the bylaws of the National Assembly is the amendment of the election law and the shift from individual action to collective action, but on condition that the system guarantees the fight against sectarian, tribal, and factionalism, and even reaching making the interrogation tool a means of collective accountability rather than an individual one controlled by a single deputy and directed to the ministers to blackmail them in completing transactions in violation of the law.
“The current National Assembly is surrounded by some who seek to destroy it after the results achieved by the representatives of the majority and the loss and departure of forces that were influential and had the final word on the political scene in the previous stage from the influential and others who are waiting for the opportunity to pounce on it and plunge it into the furnace of fake wars in order to discredit and dissolve it.
“Wisdom is required from the MPs, the most important of which is the introduction of these amendments at the required speed so as to cut off the path of the stalkers and those who are trying as much as possible to obstruct these amendments so that the current parliament is preoccupied with the trivial matters and then reaches the stage of confrontation with the government and the dissolution of the Assembly without these amendments taking their position from approval and implementation.”
“Some judges convicted by their colleagues wandered in the corridors of the courts and issued rulings before the filing of this case. They claimed that the accused, Fouad Abdel Reda Salehi, deceived and implicated them!” columnist Dr Naji Al-Zaid wrote for Al-Jarida daily.
“This Iranian neither deceived nor implicated them. The sentences imposed on them did not only offend them personally, but also the entire judicial system. Some used these provisions to claim that the judicial system has been infiltrated!
“What will happen to the grievances condemned by these judges? What will happen to those who were falsely acquitted at the hands of these judges?! Is there a neutral party that will look into all the files? Perhaps, some innocent people were convicted, while the guilty were acquitted!
“What action should be taken to avoid the recurrence of such an incident? We hope the judiciary will correct this distortion, review all cases and try to make the judicial profession an integral part of honesty, integrity and justice...”