Congratulations to Bou Khaled...

And "hard luck" for the Capital Governorate.

I will postpone the article "Al-Mutlaa residents, be careful (4)" for next week. Today I’ll talk about the assignment of His Excellency Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled as Minister of Defense. Of course, we congratulate Bou Khaled on the position, wishing him all the best and praying to Allah that the parliament’s deputies do not shed their arrows of unconstitutional and populist interpellations on him and that he be given an opportunity to perform his duties. In this article, I would like to shed light on Bou Khaled's previous position as governor of the Capital Governorate. At that time, I did not know him, but what caught my eye was his activity and interest in beautifying the Capital Governorate and eliminating the phenomenon of construction violations and the uncivilized health and humanitarian accumulation of expatriate workers. These were chronic diseases and problems that the municipality was unable to cure. As a result of all the laws enacted to limit these phenomena, the municipality was in deep slumber as usual.Glory to God, they have the ability to absorb shocks, hide them quickly, and return to their slumber and fleeting dreams. The municipality, as it is said in the Kuwaiti proverb, is "a date that does not get hurt by the gecko." For those who do not know, the gecko is an example of a healthy person who does not get ill quickly. Despite all the problems in Kuwait, they see that there is no problem at all. Moreover, they became investors on behalf of the state, distorting what was left of the country with these ugly advertisements, which crowded our streets in an uncivilized and unsafe way for road users. According to the statements of some of their officials, it is for the purpose of boosting the municipality's income, but their work has gone beyond reasonable. Bou Khaled took it upon himself to implement the law, clean the Capital Governorate of its violations, and eliminate its uncivilized manifestations. What he did was activate the monitoring teams in the municipality and the Ministry of Electricity and lead them in a very diplomatic way, with almost daily field tours into the maze of violations. They found no way but the application of the law, which resulted in the evacuation of more than 20,000 single-family residences in Bneid Al-Qar area, evacuating and cutting off the power to dozens of violating properties. For the record, this mission is at the heart of the work of the municipality, not the governor, but as I said, Bou Khaled's desire for change made him light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. His main interests were to remove irregularities, beautify the city, treat the demographic structure, and impose the power of the law. How I wish that the Kuwait Municipality would join under his administration to complete the reforms he started, but since this is far from my powers, I will only say congratulations to Bou Khalid; you deserve the position, and I say to the Capital Governorate, "Hard luck." The situation will remain as it was unless the new governor decides to complete what Bou Khaled had started.

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A message to the brothers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, especially the Legalization Department: A friend of mine informed me that he has transactions with a European country that does not have an embassy in Kuwait but whose embassy in Abu Dhabi carries out all the transactions related to Kuwait. He got the requested documents and legalized them from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and sent them to the embassy, but for more than two months, the embassy has refused to legalize them because the signature of the official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not among their approved signatures. According to their correspondence, they asked the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs to update their authorized signatures, but this has not been done to date. Our friend wrote to the ministry again, where one of the officials told him that "the solutions were to return the documents and have them sign them again or to extract new documents and have them signed." Our friend replied that the dates of the documents have already expired, and "I will extract other documents, but is your signature approved there, or will I have to come to you for a third time?" The cost of this conflict was 300 KD paid for stamps, in addition to what was previously paid. Therefore, I hope that our brothers in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will update the signatures of their employees in order to preserve the interests of the citizens.

stay safe.