MEW team ‘records’ 22 violations regarding electricity connections
Campaign launched in Shuwaikh Industrial Area
KUWAIT CITY, June 12: Deputy Head of the Judicial Enforcement Team at the Ministry of Electricity,
Kuwait’s Minister of Information and Culture and Minister of State for Youth Affairs Abdul Rahman Al-Mutairi discussed with the President of the Jordanian Football Association Prince Ali bin AlHussein ways to enhance cooperation at the sports level between the two brotherly countries.
In a press statement that the two sides affirmed, during a meeting held Friday evening, at the headquarters of the General Sports Authority, the two countries’ keenness to develop sports relations and open more prospects for cooperation to serve sports work.
The statement stated that the two sides agreed on the need to exchange sports delegations to gain more experiences, stressing the need to pay attention to athletes and their issues and to give them the appropriate support to empower and develop them.
The meeting was attended by the head of the Kuwait Football
Association Sheikh Ahmed AlY- ousef Al-Sabah and his deputy, Ahmed Oqla, and from the Jor
Water and Renewable Energy and member of the Singles Committee Ahmed Al-Shimmari announced 22 citations were issued during the campaign launched by the team on the Shuwaikh Industrial Area (industrial plots) on the Al-Sahafa Street, in cooperation and coordination with the Capital Control Team of the Electrical Distribution Networks Sector and a municipality branch in the Capital Governorate.
Al-Shimmari said in a statement to Al-Seyassah daily that this campaign comes within the ongoing campaigns in all northern governorates, which recently targeted the industrial areas, where dozens of campaigns have been launched since the beginning of this year, most notably the campaign and the comprehensive field survey in the ports corporation 3 months ago and the campaigns in the Abdali area.
He explained the campaign against industrial plots on AlSahafa Street came after several reports were received regarding theft of power through illegal electricity connections, which necessitated launching of the campaign to identify the suspects despite pressures and threat the department faced “but we continue to perform our duty”.
Al-Shimmari indicated the campaign targeted 65 industrial plots, and the violations varied between direct power connection (without a meter) to changing the capacity of the fuses and extensions in violation of the schemes approved by the Ministry of Electricity and Water.
danian side, the media advisor to the federation, Ghaleb Hijazin. (KUNA)