although kuwait has embarked on the automation system to complete transactions using the latest available technology, sometimes it makes one wonder how some human traffickers can still benefit from the state administrative apparatus and its ‘backwardness’.
how can we believe, or at least know the reason which prompted the ministry of interior only to take a ridiculous decision to allow some people to convert vehicles into offices to print official documents for renewing residence renewal and driving licenses and other relevant papers?
we say this because this can be done by a simple computer program where the people can print these forms free of charge, especially at the citizens’ service centers, without having to wait in long queues during summer and winter seasons or in dusty weather in a humiliating, inhuman and uncivilized manner just to complete a very simple printing or photocopying process.
the citizens service center signboard shows the place is dedicated to serving citizens while what we see is the increasing suffering and humiliation by employing hundreds of marginal workers in these ‘mobile offices’ whose presence is not required unless there are people out there who earn in millions annually through this uncivilized phenomenon.
other vehicles give the ugly and uncomfortable look and are seen as an uncivilized phenomenon which is a ploy adopted by those who trade in humans. by other vehicles, we want to point out at mobile groceries dotted along the desert roads, crossroads, and highways which are totally unnecessary.
they only help to scatter filth, sell ‘forbidden items’, litter the places with garbage, plastic bags which are seen flying all over the place polluting the environment and a big number of them reach the seashores. all these things are unnecessary but people involved in establishing these mobile groceries undoubtedly are those trading in visas.
i recently learned that there is a committee in the national assembly which is formed under the title ‘committee to improve the business environment’ and is chaired by mp yousef al-fadlallah, but it does not seem to have achieved much in combating the real negative phenomena, such as sabotaging the environment, increasing the density of workers’ housing areas, etc.
mobile groceries are more harmful and less beneficial. there are sales counters which escape the eye of the law and the unscrupulous exploit them as a way to sell forbidden goods such as cigarettes to the underage people who do not have access to them in the region’s cooperative societies.
these groceries which can be found at the crossroads, roundabouts, intersections and in front of schools and entrances to public places also sell other forbidden and dangerous fireworks and energy drinks even to elementary school children and more often than not cause traffic crises. add to this the absence of health control over the products being sold which are sold in an unhealthy environment.
the painful or dark side of this topic is that most of the owners of these groceries have the support of the mps of the area and if the concerned authorities tighten measures against them, they will resort to the mps of these areas – the mps who were elected by the same complainants who complain about the mobile groceries.
the same mps had earlier intervened to release their children who were detained for violating the laws. all we can say is it is time to come out of this hellish dilemma.
after all this nonsense, someone calls for democracy so that such mps win the parliamentary elections and legislate laws for us and for the future of ‘our’ children.