KUWAIT: Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) employees' syndicate's secretary general Nasser Abdullah Al-Hajri said "history would never forget those who do not protect oil sector workers' rights", adding one cannot keep silent about the current situation. Expressing absolute rejection of applying the strategic salary alternative project on oil sector employees, Hajri called for exempting both current and future oil sector employees from being subjected to this project. "This project will have catastrophic consequences on oil sector employees," he underlined, noting that it would lead to a sense of vocational insecurity and thus kill creativity and productivity.

Residents 'suffering'

MP Sultan Al-Loghaissam yesterday called for ending Jaber Al-Ahmed City residents' sufferings as soon as possible, rejecting handing over incomplete houses that lacked basic services in the city. Loghaissam stressed that most of the houses in the area do not have electric power supply yet and that many citizens could not move in, while others had to buy power generators to enjoy living in their new houses. Commenting on calls to reject the resignation filed by MEW Minister Ahmed Al-Jassar over being convicted in the 2007 emergency power plan by a first instance court on grounds that the verdict was suspended, MP Saleh Ashour urged HH the PM to immediately accept the resignation. "Suspending the verdict at this stage of litigation does not annul it nor does it mean that he is innocent," he underlined.

Undersecretary under fire

MP Mansour Al-Thafeiri accused the MPW undersecretary of withholding the truth about violations the Audit Bureau detected in the new airport project. "The undersecretary said that the Audit Bureau was still studying the airport tender while the bureau has already announced detecting violations," he charged. Meanwhile, the housing public authority is currently preparing to officially take over the South Sabah Al-Ahmad City project's land from Kuwait Municipality today. Notably, the project, due to be built over a total area of 61,500 hectares, would provide 25,000 housing units.

MoH freezes contracts

MoH recently froze the contracts of two revenue stamp machine operating companies and disconnected their machines from power at the expatriate labor medical tests center after finding 112 KD 10 stamps that did not match the specifications agreed upon with the Finance Ministry.

By A Saleh