How do we protect the nation from some misguided people?
“A verse in the Holy Quran says, ‘Who is rightly guided: the one who crawls face down or the one who walks upright on the Straight Path?’ This is an important question posed by the noble verse as it asks which person is more capable of achieving his goals and with the required speed, is it the crook or the one who walks straight?
It is impossible for the crook to reach his goals and he will surely stumble because he cannot see what is before him,” columnist Dr Abdulmohsen Hamadeh wrote for Al-Jarida daily.
“If we try to apply this to our reality, especially to what is going on in terms of quarrels and tensions between some of the MPs and the government, and between some parliamentarians and their colleagues who differ in opinion and orientation, then we must ask: ‘What did the state benefit from the new National Assembly’?
“More than four months have passed after the elections and the Assembly did not hold a single session to discuss the state’s problems, and everyone knows that the state suffers from severe crises, the most important of which are the financial crisis and the financial deficit due to the low oil prices and the spread of the epidemic that has negatively affected human health and the education.
“Before running for elections, every member should have set an electoral platform for him that he would commit to in the event of his success. This is what we have been accustomed to in the previous elections more than sixty years ago, but in this Assembly, we only hear threats and intimidation all day long – some members threatening His Highness the Prime Minister, ministers, and those who disagree with them, including the people, especially the merchant class and we begin to hear those threatening to drag those who disagree with the opinion on the streets and they will hold popular trials for those who disagree with them.
“During the last session which was held on March 30, in which the new government took the oath in front of the attending MPs, the opponents sat outside the hall, and after the session was completed, they entered the meeting room to insult their colleagues (who attended the session) using obscene words.
“This should not have come from members representing the nation but as the Arab proverb says, ‘Every vessel exudes what is in a person’s tongue expresses what is going on in his mind’. A bad person whose heart is full of hatred and grudge will not be able to see what is positive in society but rather will focus on the negatives as for the normal person, will see the Kuwaiti society as any other society in which there are positives and they are many and there are negatives, so we must preserve the positives and address the problems.
“How do we protect the state from this misguided group that wants to destroy the state and its institutions? The Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia have confronted this evil group and eradicated it from society, so these countries have calmed down.
“Our society cannot stabilize and conditions cannot calm down while these people live among us and spew out their poisons. We notice these poisons in the articles written by those who belong to this group, and their malevolent words in the social media.”
“The last session of the National Assembly, regardless of its disputed positions, and the boycott by a large number of MPs during the oath-taking ceremony and the subsequent agenda that was full of many important issues that were voted on and approved, and those laws were submitted to the government, and this is what the political arena missed in the current assembly,” columnist Major General (Rtd) Dr. Adel AlEbraheem wrote for daily.
“It is no secret that taking a position opposing the government does not mean at all not attending the sessions, as the losers are the members who did not attend especially since the session was held even with a simple majority, and legislative achievements were made.
“In general, the session was fruitful in the completion of many important laws, although it came during the series of interrogations directed at His Highness the Prime Minister as well as the Minister of Health.
“It is surprising that the health situation in the country is the same as the case of other countries, as we are facing a severe wave of the Corona pandemic that requires concerted legislative and executive efforts to confront it and focus on the general rules to confront the epidemic.
“It would have been more appropriate for the interrogating members to request a clarification session from the Minister of Health to give him the opportunity to highlights what the ministry has done to take effective measures to protect the society and the economy at the same time despite the fact that the minister, a short while ago, with the medical staff, had explained the health situation in the country.
“Therefore, the use of the interrogation tool, with our full belief in the member’s right to use it at this time and with the high number of infected people and deaths, this matter requires concerted efforts to confront the epidemic, especially since many countries have embarked on a complete closure or stopping many activities because there is an urgent need to reduce the high number of infected people, and to relieve the health system from any pressure.
“There is no doubt that society, in all its spectrums, appreciates what the Minister of Health and the medical staff do and hopes that the deputies will also appreciate that, while preserving all their supervisory and legislative rights in monitoring the minister’s performance and the work of the Ministry away from any politically disputed matters.”