Lawmakers visit jailed colleagues today
MPs to plead with Amir for amnesty
KUWAIT: MP Abdulkareem Al-Kandari announced that a number of his colleagues met at MP Waleed AlTabtabaei’s office and decided to visit today MPs Tabtabaei and Jamaan Al-Harbash, as well as a number of citizens detained at the central prison. “We hope to turn a new leaf and focus more on the best interests of Kuwait during such critical circumstances,” he added, expressing hope that next Sunday’s parliamentary session will be held with a new Cabinet in office to help maintain domestic solidarity.
MPs Mohammed Al-Dallal, Khaled Al-Otaibi, Osama Al-Shaheen, Kandari, Mubarak Al-Hajraf, AlHumaidi Al-Subaei, Nayef Al-Merdas, Omar AlTabtabaei, Mohammed Hayef, Majed Al-Mutairi,
3,107 expats working in oil sector
Thamer Al-Suwait, Mohammed Al-Huwailah, Abdullah Fahhad, Abdulwahab Al-Babtain and Ali Al-Deqbasi attended the meeting at Tabtabaei’s office, and they agreed to request a meeting with HH the Amir and plead for an amnesty.
Business cities A number of lawmakers plan to make a proposal to the government requesting building six ‘business cities’ including integrated commercial complexes to be distributed to entrepreneurs in various governorates. Informed sources said each city should at least comprise 2,000 units to be distributed to entrepreneurs and new graduates for nominal fees in order to help the youth start their own businesses. The sources added that the Kuwait national fund for small and medium enterprises development is currently preparing a special accounting system to be used by entrepreneurs with the aim of enhancing control and reducing risks.
Oil sector
Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Essam Al-Marzouq said the total number of citizens working in Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and its subsidiaries is 18,436, including 150 at Kuwait Petroleum International Company (Q8) and 8,375 in Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Marzouq added that the total number of non-Kuwaitis working in the oil sector is 3,107. Responding to a question about cases filed by KPC and its subsidiaries against public fund violators over the past 10 years, Marzouq said nine cases had been filed by KOC and 13 by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC).
Advisors’ salaries Minister of Justice and Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Faleh Al-Azb said a parliamentary inquiry is one of lawmakers’ constitutional rights, but remarked that such a right is not an absolute one. Responding to an inquiry about advisors working in his office, Azab stressed that he cannot reveal information about employees and advisors’ financial affairs, as according to the constitutional court’s explanation number 3/2004, a parliamentary inquiry is not absolute and is limited by individuals’ constitutional and personal freedoms and rights. Azb added that he has four Egyptian advisors working in his office, and they had been appointed by the Central Service Commission (CSC) after reviewing their CVs.