The government’s commitment and efforts to protect people from the drug epidemic that destroys human lives, devastates society, and costs the state enormous sums are highly commendable. These are irreplaceable losses.
Their diligence and scrutiny have extended to considering the symbols and images of users, such as Caribbean reggae singer Bob Marley, to support decisive solutions.
There are issues in Kuwait that we believe are no less damaging and costly than drugs—affecting the entire population every moment, every hour, every day, week, and month, over many harsh years. Yet they have not received the same decisive resolve in addressing them.
Perhaps most prominent are the negative effects resulting from the population imbalance and human congestion, which costs everyone dreams, efforts, money, lives, and irreplaceable time that cannot be valued. at any price.
How many important life projects have been delayed or canceled because of congestion? How many accidents have happened? How many ambulances and fire trucks have been held up? How many urgent injuries and critically ill patients have died because of overcrowding?
Not to mention the constant disruption in transactions, transportation, mobility, and medical appointments, for which the government has spent billions building the world’s largest hospitals and a complex road network, all without real benefit.
What about delayed and disrupted daily life errands that strain nerves and consume energy, focus, and effort? What about the cost of solutions like dividing government working hours, which fragments the day and life of Kuwaiti families, while most workers remain outside this system?
And if only the officially imported human surplus—around 80% of them unskilled labor—added real value to the country through talent and intellectual, creative, and industrial capabilities. And if only they supported productivity and the economy.
Most of what we see is them occupying the country’s facilities and spaces, extracting billions of dirhams after paying tribute to sponsors. The effects: pressure on services, economic decline, and increasing deficit.
What about Kuwaitis feeling like strangers in their country’s facilities and streets?
Perhaps we need copies of Bob Marley among the crowds of miserable workers, and amid congestion everywhere. Copies of him in clinics, hospitals, and service facilities, and a large copy covering Kuwait’s sky so the government will take action.
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