KUWAIT: Recent Ministry of Interior (MOI) statistics showed that the total number of expatriates deported for traffic violations since the beginning of 2015 reached 413, including 297 deported for driving without a license. The statistics also showed that the expats were deported upon direct orders from Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah for violating Kuwait’s laws and disturbing law and order in general.

In this regard, and responding to inquiries about using this measure excessively lately and fears that it might be in a vexatious way, informed sources reassured that the right to issue ‘administrative deportation’ warrant was restricted to the interior minister himself, and then get endorsed by his undersecretary after he reviews full reports about each expat’s violation.

Expats are subject to deportation when they violate traffic laws by driving without a driver’s license, disturb public security and order through involvement in harassment and fights and when rallying or raising religious or political issues in public, the sources added. —Al-Rai