KUWAIT CITY, June 5: Former lawmaker and deputy speaker Mishari Al-Anjari criticized the government for lacking a comprehensive vision while increasing salaries of government employees, saying the increments granted between 2005 and 2008 are equivalent to the cost of building 15,000 houses per year or establishing five hospitals similar to Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital every year or employing 250,000 people per year, reports Al-Watan Arabic daily.
He also warned against wasting public wealth and exhausting it. Speaking about political environment, he said, “deteriorating level of political dialogue and conflicts among lawmakers are the likely causes for lack of political blocs in the Assembly. Consequently, every lawmaker tries to show off at the cost of real work.”
Al-Anjari affirmed that interpellations deviated from their true purpose and it has reached a stage where they have become a preparatory step for discharging ministers and this adversely affects the country.
Meanwhile, Head of the Interior and Defense Committee MP Askar Al-Enezi has required elimination of insignificant traffic signals spread across the country, causing deadly traffic accidents, reports Al-Rai daily.
Al-Enezi stated that studies have proven the traffic signals, particularly those near residential areas, cause minor and fatal accidents, besides the traffic congestion. He called on officials in the Interior Ministry to coordinate with the Municipality and replace unnecessary traffic signals with roundabouts to facilitate traffic flow.
He noted the Jahra and Farwaniya governorates witness daily traffic congestion, particularly in the morning when the school and working hours coincide. He stated Jahra alone has about 10 traffic lights, which could be replaced with roundabouts, assuring the Jahra governorate will soon be pacesetters in the ‘free traffic Kuwait’, in line with traffic laws.
In the meantime, the schedule for Cabinet’s session Sunday evening, which will be headed by the Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed, is full of diverse issues and reports, says Al-Anba daily.
The daily quoting reliable ministry sources revealed the government is likely to ask the National Assembly to discuss several draft bills, with priority to amendment of the law of the fund for the needy, before the end of the current parliamentary term.
Sources noted the government will complete the internal bylaws of the fund in time, to pave the way for new applications to be received, after the amendment has been published in the official gazette.
In the meantime, the government has drafted bills on sports, cooperative societies, and environment protection, besides modification to the Tenders Law.