There is something new every day in our country, and news can crowd into a single day like the April clouds. You find the sky clear; a few minutes later, the weather turns into air, then dust, followed by thunder, lightning, rain, and sometimes ice. You can watch the four seasons in one day, and after that, nothing is mentioned other than claims for cleaning and maintenance. I would like to stay away from the flame’s political atmosphere because it is also a cloud within another cloud, and it is better to be patient and remain silent. This is advice I address to everyone, especially the youth. No one enters into controversy, retweets, breaks the rules, or violates the law. The distress will come to an end after a few days, God willing, and everyone knows. The players race to sit on the seats is running, and whoever does not find a seat for himself is out of the game. Returning to my topic for today, which is what we read in the newspapers about the desire of the Ministry of Interior not to renew approximately 300,000 driving licenses for expatriates, according to what was published, this matter arose out of a desire to reduce traffic congestion. Of course, this issue is similar to the issue of the non-renewal of residency permits for those who are over sixty. Which they changed after that and replaced it with approving high fees for them, then they reduced it eventually. The matter did not end at this point, and one of its most important results was that the citizens did not find anyone to sew their Dishdashas (Kuwaiti traditional dress for men), and the appointments reached months for its preparation. On a personal level, my tailor gave me an appointment to deliver my Dishdashas after a month and a half, since before Ramadan. When I asked him, why does it take all that time? He said, “Sir, there are no tailors. Every day, someone over the age of sixty leaves Kuwait.” This contrasts with the calls that say we do not want non-university expatriates, and we have previously spoken and written that the labor required for construction and mechanical work is all vocational labor, and it does not necessarily have to be graduates. This procedure resulted in high labor prices and sometimes even scarcity, as the citizen who built his house would not have enough money for these high labor prices. Which means that all your ill-considered decisions are reflected on the simple citizen, and now we have the issue of withdrawing driving licenses. This issue has two sides. The first is determining who is entitled to a license for graduates only with a salary of not less than six hundred dinars. This is a problem because most of the delegates in the companies have secondary school certificates, and maybe less, as well as the technicians. It was preferable to divide those who are entitled to the license according to categories and according to the requirements of the market, because what will happen eventually with poor public transport networks is that the number of taxis on the streets will increase. We can go back to the phenomenon of pick-up cars that transport workers illegally. If these people do not find cars to drive, they will not stay in their homes, but the streets will be crowded with them again, in one way or another. A citizen’s life will be more complicated than it is now. Regarding the second part, which I support, they are the ones who obtained their licenses illegally. While I am writing this article, I remembered an article I wrote in 2016 under the title “Chefs of the Ministry of Interior,” and I will quote from it to you: “The local newspapers surprised us with a statement from the Ministry of Interior that they have discovered one hundred thousand cooks and servants with driving licenses , Let’s go back to the one hundred thousand cooks of MOI; a number which represents almost 15% of the domestic labor registered in the Ministry . The steps taken by MOI to make this announcement with all transparency is a good thing, and the steps they are taking to fix the situation cannot be argued with, but the big question confusing us is this: Who initiated, approved, stamped, and printed all those licenses? Did nobody notice that they were cooks and not drivers?!” As for our question today, have the licenses of the 100,000 cooks been revoked since 2016? Or are they among the 300,000 licenses that we spoke about? Was the one who issued it punished, or is he still in his position? I fully hope that the brothers in the Ministry of the Interior will work on studying the consequences of such a decision from the technical, legal, and humanitarian aspects as well as the interest of the citizen
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