Jeleeb’s epidemic

A few days ago, I was approached by the active journalist Mohammed Awada of Al Qabas, who asked me about my opinion regarding the project of valuing the Jeleeb Al Shuyoukh area, and I told him what I thought, which a part of it was published on the economic page. However, I decided to write this article because of the importance that this subject has for Kuwait and its people. I begin with what was published in the newspapers about the Ministry of Finance's approval for the acquisition, redevelopment, and resale of the Jeleeb area. Kuwait citizens have grand expectations for this project for two main important points that this area has. The first important matter lies in its strategic position and its mediation between several large development projects. It is opposite Jaber Al-Ahmad Stadium and is close to the University of Shadadiyah, as well as Kuwait's new airport. All these projects require support services. For example, Jaber Stadium may be the center of a sports city, and what it may require of playgrounds for other sports activities and services from hotels and entertainment areas. Also, Al-Shadadiyah University, Kuwait Airport, and its related support ground services. This means that if this area has been redesigned outside the framework of what is applicable to investment, commercial, and industrial zones, the area will be an active icon linking big development projects whose reorganization will entail the availability of real estate inventory for developers. Kuwait is extremely poor regarding the supply of all kinds of real estate, and this has brought real estate prices to a detrimental enormous figure and forms a burden on citizens' and residents' incomes. At the valuing process, I wish the state does not resell it but rent it for a long time and with revenue of its value, in line with the state's invested funds, which will be a constant financial allocation to the state budget, not as it is in Shuwaikh, Chalets and other state property. This project is therefore a promising development project if it is best acted upon. The second important matter is that this region represents a security hazard and a center of all kinds of offenses and crimes, along with street squalor and the inhumane situation resulting from the overcrowding of labor in rooms that are unsuitable for human housing, and tens of thousands of workers' gatherings lie in some kind of organized crime. In returning to the building law and the Regulations on Fines for Contravening Properties, they stipulate an estimated fine of five thousand dinars for each violating meter in addition to its removal. Also, since the vast majority of properties there are in contravention of the law and have serious irregularities, if the building law is applied, the entire area will be removed, and by law, property owners will be fined by hundreds of millions. But this application causes significant harm to citizens. The major problem in the implementation of this project lies in the migration of these groupings to other areas, turning these areas into another Jeleeb Al Shuyoukh. In time, the Mahboula area will be the first candidate for such groupings, which in time will extend to the Faheheil and Fintas regions. In other words, the ugliness of the Jeleeb Al Shuyoukh area will be moved to the coastal areas. Some of those communities may seep into old areas like Salwa and Jabriya, so valuing that area is only a project to treat a person with an infectious disease and transmit his disease and the associated infection to a whole community. Therefore, so that we do not face a severe problem that is difficult to control, the state must first control the loose labor file and the residential offenders of the residents of that area, then build organized and clean labor cities that take into account the requirements of human rights and security control, and then carry out this promising project.

A Congratulations

When this article is published, we will have a new National Assembly and a government under formation. I bless all those who have won the trust of the people, especially the three stars of Sister/Aaliyah Al-Khalid, Sister/Jennan Bushehri, and Brother/Abdulwahab Al-Issa. I say to them congratulations and expect a lot from you for Kuwait and its people, and I wish those who have not had the luck in the coming times that I hope to see an active National Assembly and government for the country's interest.

stay safe.