Ahmed Al-Rubei has a few words for Sheikh Sabah and his entourage for when they return from their "excellent adventure" around East Asia. He urges them to take a tour around Kuwait's ministries and government departments to get a first-hand look at the daily ritual humiliations dished out to the poor souls, Kuwaitis and foreigners alike, who have any sort of business to attend to.
Back when Kuwait was a fledgling nation with no real experience in government management, we had to look to other Arab countries for their "expertise", and we ended up importing all the rotten bureaucracy, red tape, and paper-pushing and every possible procedure created to further ruin the already wretched lives of Arabs across the Middle East, paving the way for institutionalized corruption on an unprecendented scale.
Al-Rubei says now that we're a rich country in which the private sector has made great advances in management and where we have access to the world's best management consultants, we simply have no excuse for the continuation of this sad state of affairs... Unless, of course, "someone" is benefiting from the corrupt status quo and is happy keeping things just the way they are!
"...Unless, of course, "someone" is benefiting from the corrupt status quo and is happy keeping things just the way they are!"
ReplyDeleteHmmm.. not only "someone" is benefiting.. they even started a whole new "Citizens Services & Government Bodies Assessment Agency" AKA C2G to.. mmm.. legalize corruption!
Long live Sheikh Muhammad Abdalla Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah.
Bo naser doesn't want reform, he wants to be a "people's man"..
Why should he worry about it anyways.. it's not like he might lose his job over it.
You were right about Keane's Hopes and Fears. It's good stuff. Track 3 gave me goose bumps :S and I loved Bend and Break and Sunshine too.
Isn't it great? I spent all day Thursday driving around town and belting it out... Not one bad song on that album!
ReplyDeleteI don't understand or know what's going on in Kuwait in regards to politics, but your mention of a "people's man" scared me. The last guy to be dubbed that was Hitler. He even promoted the Volkswagen Beatle calling it "the people's car". I call it Hitler's car and don't intend to buy one anymore.
ReplyDeleteI just hope you guys are careful and don't all go Nazi. I was one for a short time, I could've killed someone.
My first car was a Volkswagen Golf, and I drive a Volkswagen Touareg now. Hitler is dead, last time I checked
ReplyDeleteFrom my experience as a private sector employee who moved to public sector( namely, wazarat al-shu2oon) just to have a break of the stress and to gain some time for my private business i have predicted the movement of kuwait's best businesses out of the country due to the bureacracy of our government.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with shurouq that the Emir Sheikh Sabah 6al 3umra wants to be the people's man leavingbehind a very weak government that is been dismissed twice in a couple of years(2006-2008).
My predictions were proved to be right by the escape of successful businesses out of here.
Here are some examples of what I mean
"Most of the governments in the Gulf look at the private sector as a partner,'' Al Mashaan said. "Here in Kuwait they look at it as a competitor.''
Zain, Kuwait's biggest mobile phone company, in September said it will set up an international headquarters in neighbouring Bahrain during 2008 as it seeks a tax-efficient and convenient place from which to expand overseas. Kuwait has "not evolved its modus operandi'' CEO Sa'ad Al Barrak said.
Agility, the Middle East's biggest storage and logistics company, may move its headquarters out of Kuwait because of "turtle-speed'' bureaucracy, the state-run Kuwait News Agency reported in August.
Last month, the Al Watan newspaper said Al Tamdeen Real Estate may join the exodus, citing chairman Mohammad Al Marzouk.
I hope it gets better one day, because whatever is the case in Kuwait, I become agressive when i hear bad things about it if I'm abroad.
Is it true that the Palm project was planned to be set in Kuwait before it was shifted to Dubai?!!!
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