Man’s struggle with ‘dunes’ on Wafra-Kabd Road
Virus crisis delays cleanup process: official
KUWAIT CITY, June 27: For three days, users of the WafraKabd Road have been contending with the problem of soft creeping sand dunes covering large parts of the road as a result of northwestern wind activity. As if a person is in conflict with the dunes on this road, the sand instills dozens of cars in heaps of sand that gathers on both sides of the road while the problem remains eternal, as government agencies throw it among themselves, reports AlRai daily.
A number of users of the aforementioned road expressed dissatisfaction and despair at the failure of concerned authorities to remove the gory sight from the road, as it exposes lives to the danger of death. A large number of cars were spotted with the wheels diving in the sand on both sides of the road in an attempt by their owners to avoid the heap on the road.
For his part, Khaled AlMarri,
Chairman of Wafra Residents’ Voluntary Committee, said: “We, the people of Wafra Residential District, are despaired over our requests to concerned authorities to find a solution to this recurring problem without reaching a result. Previously, we, the residents, requested the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources to plant trees on the parallel lines of the road from both sides to prevent sand from crawling along the road, but the authority refused the request.”
He was surprised that concerned agencies such as the ministries of Public Works and Defense, as well as the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources responsible for removing the sand from Wafra Road, have abdicated the responsibility of tackling the problem to the other, while the people of the region are lost between this and that.
Al-Marri added, “We are ready to cooperate with any agency to solve this problem that plagues and continues to haunt the people of the region, and owners of Wafra farms and residents of Sabah Al Ahmad who use this outlet.”
On the other hand, wellinformed sources in the Ministry of Public Works said it’s officials have already met with Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research and the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources to develop permanent solutions to the problem of crawling sand on external roads, but because of the novel coronavirus crisis, the problem has not been followed up.
The sources pointed out that the ministry through its mechanisms will remove the sand step by step from the road, but there are parts of those external roads that belong to the Ministry of Defense.