Dr Shafiqa and piety claimant

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There is no act more arbitrary than a deputy exploiting  the National Assembly platforms to attack the weak citizens and state employees for not responding to his peculiar requests, or to pass transactions that may be illegal, a phenomenon that is not new but is increasing.

MP Osama Al-Munawer, whose military activity in Syria is well-known, has used his parliamentary seat to attack the director of the disability authority, Dr. Shafiqa Al-Awadhi and accused her of bad mannerism at the authority and that she did not respect him and turned down his request to grant a license to Dr. AS to open a private school for the handicapped inside a residential area saying the authority had issued such licenses to others.

All attempts made by Dr. Shafiqa to explain to the MP that the license for that school was issued four years ago, followed by a law banning the opening of private schools for the handicapped in residential areas was futile and said the aggrieved party has the right to resort to the judiciary.

The MP did not like the director’s insistence to stand with her stance, so he acted in a strange manner — as a former minister told me — and threatened her, after insulting her in front of her superiors.

It is also said that he followed the same method with another doctor working in the Ministry of Health, and threatened to complain to the minister, and to question him if no action was taken against her. It appears from all of this that the deputy is in a hurry to prove his presence, and to make use of the parliamentary seat as much as he is able to!

I am not defending Dr. Shafiqa Al-Awadhi or others and I do not think that she is an ideal director, as we are all human beings, and only those who deal with her as the guardian of a disabled person knows the truth about the work of the disability authority.

I have gone through several experiences with more than one director of the authority, over a period of thirty years, and I witnessed the administrative and psychological pressures that a number of them were subjected to, including representatives and senior executives to pass illegal transactions.

Add to this the rampant corruption in the authority, and the strange stories of citizens and employees within the authority and their violation of the law by forging disability certificates bearing the signatures and seals of doctors, former and current, in the Ministry of Health, and causing the theft of state funds.

Such manipulation prompted those with conscience to act in an official and resolute manner with everyone, knowing that otherwise means either that they suffer a nervous breakdown, as a result of the large number of demands, pressures and infringements, or wasting time in meeting the satisfaction of every applicant, and accepting the illegal transactions as happened in the past, in order to satisfy a deputy and others, especially since the number of visitors to the are hundreds per day, and the demand for salaries, benefits and bonuses for the disabled is large, and the numbers of the disabled continues to rise.

In his speech in which he attacked Dr. Shafiqa, the MP revealed that opening a school for the disabled is financially rewarding, as the State pays 7,000 dinars annually for every disabled person, in addition to what is collected from parents, therefore the issue may be a desire to achieve wealth at the expense of the law, not a claim to a right and this – if true – is something that a person of conscience will not accept, especially when pressure comes from those who claim piety.

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By Ahmad alsarraf

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