The three short stories
1. two months ago, i got a permission to build a warehouse in sabhan, and it turns out that i first need to get the clearance for the plot where the warehouse will be built, and this requires obtaining a permit to store materials, which means checking with the municipality, ministry of communications, ministry of electricity and water, ministry of public works, the public authority for industry then back to the municipality.
it took almost two months for two representatives to run here and there in the labyrinths and corridors of the ministries to finish 95 percent of the transaction, so far. there is no complaint and no protest, but i hope we stop talking about e-government and administrative development.
2. since post-liberation until recently, kuwait has been suffering from a dilemma or disaster which is the difficulty of the postal staff to read the mailbox number on the letters and put them in the appropriate box due to the spread of malignant disease among them whose scientific name is ‘taal bacher’ in arabic, ‘come tomorrow’ in english although the government has declared that the problem of accumulation of letters and parcels no longer exists.
the most important and more difficult problem is also the inability of court representatives to find the addresses of litigants, a problem that remains unresolved for more than half a century, and all ministers of justice have failed to resolve it, while the delivery ‘boys’ of restaurants have solved the problem very easily and know every nook and corner of the country let alone every house, apartment, and livestock pen and others whether it is for kuwaitis or residents.
the ministry has the right to continue to delay the finalization of cases in the courts while the litigants lose their rights, but please do not talk about kuwait’s transformation into a global financial center.
3. an employee working in the ministry of awqaf – the ministry that continues to commit financial violations unabated – appealed the verdict of criminal court that convicted him to submit a certificate from the awqaf to be presented to an applied institute to that he has work experience of seven years – which was a condition – because the certificate violates the truth.
here the case is almost normal because the country has sunk in fake certificates, why only this case? what is unacceptable and unpredictable is the details of the esteemed court which stated painfully end explicitly that the employee got his certificate upon request (or urgency and pressure) from one of the deputies of the fifth constituency to a former minister of awqaf who provided the employee with the certificate that is contrary to the truth.
how can this happen in a ministry entrusted with teaching and promoting religion and defending a doctrine, and carrying the message of morality, which is penetrated in almost every part of it?
and how did the minister allow himself to sign that fake letter? if we overlook the pressure of the mp, the minister, and the employee, how can the prime minister’s silence be explained after the court of appeal’s conviction of one of his cabinet ministers whose name popped out in the verdict?
after all, some wonder: why are we in this gendarmerie? are we ready for 2035, you bet.
