Kuwaiti MP files plea to quiz labour minister
Political storm clouds are again looming large over Kuwait after a lawmaker filed the third motion in one week to grill a minister.
MP Saleh Ashour on Sunday filed to quiz Minister of Social Affairs and Labour and State Minister for Economic Affairs Hind Al Sabeeh over allegations of abusing the law to dissolve non-governmental organisations and cooperative societies, failing to enforce necessary policies to restructure Kuwait’s demographics and failing to apply development plans to bolster the economy.
The grilling motion follows one filed earlier by MPs Omar Al Tabtabai and Abdul Wahab Al Babteen, with 10 allegations, against Oil Minister Bakheet Al Rasheed.
Corruption charges
On Thursday, MP Hamdan Al Azemi filed to quiz Prime Minister Shaikh Jaber Al Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah, saying that the grilling will focus on Kuwait’s decline in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), financial excesses, the government’s laxity in implementing laws, the nonissuance of the executive regulations of some laws, the revocation of citizenship, the status of the Bidoon (stateless people) and the continuation of the international sports suspension.
The three motions will be discussed by the parliament at its regular session on May 1, Speaker Marzouq Al Ghanem said, unless the prime minister and Al Sabeeh ask for the 14-day hiatus between the filing and the discussion stipulated in the bylaws.