KUWAIT: Municipal
Councilmember and head of Ahmadi governorate committee Fuhaid Al-Muwaizri
lauded a decision by State Minister for Municipal Affairs Fahd Al-Shula to form
a specialized committee with several government agencies as members with
regards to dealing with Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh's problems. He said the committee
will concentrate on checking all "negatives" in the area and find the
necessary solutions within six months. The committee will then submit its
report to the minister.

Muwaizri said the
area has numerous problems, in addition to the escalating health and
environmental issues, adding it's a "catastrophe" according to all
standards. He said the area is considered a haven for lawbreakers and residency
violators, and has piles of trash, insects and rodents, with an absence of
health and educational awareness among its Asian communities.

Meanwhile, the
committee following up with the issue of 'bachelors' residing in private
residential areas, headed by Deputy Director General for Farwaniya and Mubarak
Al-Kabeer affairs Ammar Al-Ammar, held a meeting with the participation of
Farwaniya security director, director of environment police, debris department
director at the Environment Public Authority, assistant undersecretary for
distribution networks at the ministry of electricity and water, representative
of the Public Authority for Civil Information and other officials.

The meeting
discussed obstacles the team faces in order to remove them and stop the
phenomenon of single expat men living in private residential areas. The
"Be Sure" campaign was discussed, where power was cut from 135
houses, in addition to discovering 303 houses occupied by bachelors out of 558
violating houses.

In the meantime,
Municipal Councilmember and head of the petitions and complaints committee
Meshaal Al-Hamdan said he will ask the municipality's legislative branch about
evicting bachelors from private residential areas all over Kuwait during the
period from Jan 2019 until now. Hamdan wants statistics showing the number of
evictions in each governorate, the date and the procedures taken in this
regard.

By Meshaal
Al-Enezi