Oil Minister Essam
Al-Marzouq

KUWAIT: Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Essam Al-Marzouq said the total number of citizens working in Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) and its subsidiaries is 18,436, including 150 at Kuwait Petroleum International Company (Q8) and 8,375 in Kuwait Oil Company (KOC). Marzouq added that the total number of non-Kuwaitis working in the oil sector is 3,107. Responding to a question about cases filed by KPC and its subsidiaries against public fund violators over the past 10 years, Marzouq said nine cases had been filed by KOC and 13 by Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC).

Advisors' salaries

Minister of Justice And Minister of State for National Assembly Affairs Faleh Al-Azb said a parliamentary inquiry is one of lawmakers' constitutional rights, but remarked that such a right is not an absolute one. Responding to an inquiry about advisors working in his office, Azab stressed that he cannot reveal information about employees and advisors' financial affairs, as according to the constitutional court's explanation number 3/2004, a parliamentary inquiry is not absolute and is limited by individuals' constitutional and personal freedoms and rights. Azb added that he has four Egyptian advisors working in his office, and they had been appointed by the Central Service Commission (CSC) after reviewing their CVs.

By A Saleh