i spent more than half a century in more than one country and field in administration of all kinds, and i sometimes wonder: why do some things seem so difficult for some?
we have a chronic problem in kuwait called “government red tape”, which has exacerbated and become entrenched over time for two reasons:
one is for not assessing the deadly risks of red tape and rejecting all proposals to seek help, locally or abroad from those who know how to eliminate it.
and two, the suitability of the failure of the routine to the nature of the political situation in the state and its use to delay the completion of the citizens’ transactions and prompting them to ask the respective deputies to complete them by seeking the help of ministers in return for refraining from participating in any future interrogations related to the minister provide the latter bows to their demands.
historically, this situation was a welcome and comfortable situation for the representative, the official, and some voters, and for at least half a century, only the proud citizen, or who knew no one to mediate on his behalf was the loser.
after millions of citizens suffered from mismanagement, and billions of precious hours were wasted as a result of waiting for the simple and ridiculous transactions to be completed, which led to the loss of tens of billions of dinars of public money for nothing, signs of administrative reform have finally begun to appear on the horizon, or this is what we wish for.
away from the fact of belonging to this country, wholeheartedly, with complete distance from all memories and feelings from childhood and boyhood to date, i can say that if i had to choose between living in kuwait and any other gulf country, i would not have chosen, and for logical reasons, i understand well, other than kuwait as a homeland, with all due respect to the rest of the countries.
therefore, i see that his highness the president is fortunate to assume the presidency of the council of ministers of the state of kuwait, just as we are fortunate for this assumption, or so things seem so far.
he has accomplished a lot in the short period, achieving what others were unable to accomplish the evidence is before us, and we thank him for his efforts and to accomplish the tasks entrusted to him, and above that, through personal communication with senior government officials, and urging them to open their doors to citizens, and carry out their transactions.
these initiatives may be beautiful, but their success depends on what his highness has in terms of time and ability, this is not the fact that the matter is related to his person, which means that the urge is temporary and subject to forgetting and the usual neglect of government officials when communication becomes weak.
therefore, what the country and the citizen need is to make developing government work, and eliminating red tape is a top priority by reducing the number of papers required for each transaction, rapidly expanding the introduction of mechanization and the completion of online transactions.
all of these are of no benefit to issuing verbal instructions to officials to overcome the obstacles to citizens’ transactions. rather, it must be overcome through advanced administrative systems in which many countries have preceded us, and there is no need to reinvent the wheel.
if this is done, the majority of citizens’ complaints about the government red tape will disappear and with it, the need to bribe someone to complete the transactions and the humiliation of the citizen in front of the doors of the parliament will stop, and the humiliation of the representative will stop before the doors of the ministers.
your highness, currently we don’t need anything better for our country than this recipe for the treatment of government red tape which is the silent killer.