Arab Times

‘Polite’ people are losers

- By Ahmad alsarraf

The role of a Member of Parliament in most parliament­s is to participat­e in enacting laws, approving internatio­nal treaties, concluding peace and alliances, monitoring any expenditur­es not included in the budget, accepting or refusing to impose taxes and fees, monitoring national wealth, reviewing and approving the state budget, and the right in forming committees, expressing desires in public matters, the right to interrogat­e, put confidence in ministers, express non-cooperatio­n with the prime minister, and so on and so forth.

However, since 1963 what we have seen is an increasing number of MPs are not concerned with these issues, except when issues are of personal nature – politicall­y and financiall­y. Consequent­ly, they focused on issues that bring personal benefits – wealth, whether from government gifts and grants or by exploiting their supervisor­y positions to achieve or expand their commercial interests and enter into deals with the government; appointing their relatives and voters in senior state positions, regardless of competence and paying attention to providing services in their electoral district such as roads, cooperativ­e societies and mosques, and have even shown interest in lampposts and garbage containers for the benefit of their voters.

This radical difference or position taken by an MP led to the emergence or increase in random hires, or appointmen­t in senior positions without going through the normal channels of promotion or following the rule of seniority or eligibilit­y.

In contrast to these, the concern of others who are non-sectarians and nontribal sectarians is to practice the parliament­ary work in a proper manner, or close to that, and therefore they often did not accept for themselves or begged ministers or their president to employ their relatives or their voters in higher positions, and if they did, it would be minimal and out of conviction of the competence of those nominating him.

The result that we see in front of us is that the MPs who showed politeness and self-esteem did not seek appointing their constituen­ts or their relatives to obtain the fatty positions, nor did they make illegal fortunes for themselves. As for those who were not ashamed were the most harvesting the government positions for their relatives and constituen­ts, and this is how we saw that politeness and integrity were harmful and the lack of modesty is useful.

It is therefore necessary to rationaliz­e this improper behavior and issue an order or law or call it what you want that prohibits appointmen­t to any high position, if the employee does not meet the required conditions and passing specific tests.

The issuance of such a decision will remove the embarrassm­ent of the prime minister and the rest of the ministers, and prevent them from accepting any exceptions.

Whoever tries to identify the background of the majority of senior state officials will know the meaning of the subject of this article, and this is not an attack on the MPs who sought and mediated to appoint their relatives or voters to the highest positions and the best embassies of the country overseas. Rather, it is a criticism of the administra­tive and political system that allowed such appointmen­ts.

KUWAIT CITY, March 3: Head of the Speech and Hearing Department at the Sheikh Salem AlAli Center, Dr. Tamim Al-Ali says Kuwait, with other countries of the world, Wednesday participat­ed in Internatio­nal Day of

Hearing and Ear Care.

In a press statement on the occasion of the celebratio­n of the event which the world celebrates on March

3 of each year, Al-Ali said the Ministry of Health represente­d by the Sheikh Salem

Al-Ali Center for Speech and Hearing Therapy held a number of activities to raise awareness.

He said the Sheikh Salem Al Ali Center for Speech and Hearing celebrated the event at the center’s headquarte­rs at the Al Sabah Specialize­d Medical District.

Efficient

The special booth which was put up for the benefit of visitors included the introducti­on and awareness raising activities about highly efficient medical services provided by the center and pointed out that hearing clinics in the six governorat­es participat­ed in the event.

He explained the campaign’s goals are to share informatio­n and to promote measures aimed at preventing hearing loss and improving hearing.

He added hearing impairment is one of the most common disabiliti­es, as 1 in 5 people suffers from a hearing loss that may cause difficulti­es in communicat­ion, pointing out there are about 500 million people in the world who suffer from hearing impairment to various degrees, and the number is expected to reach 900 million in 2050.

He emphasized that 60% of the causes of children’s hearing impairment can be prevented through timely and proper care.

Dr. Al-Ali said the event was held under the slogan ‘Hearing Care for All’.

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