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Outraged Mps to Grill PM Over Cash Handouts SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2014 JAMADA ALTHANI 14, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Amir ‘first Ukraine in Kuwait Times Liverpool sink Arab leader’ bloody battle goes green, City to close honored to oust awards winners on title, Chelsea by UN 2 gunmen7 of36 art contest stay20 in touch Outraged MPs to grill Max 31º Min 22º PM over cash handouts High Tide 11:35 & 23:50 MP Tameemi says he mediated aid for needy, husseiniyas Low Tide 05:31 & 17:52 40 PAGES NO: 16135 150 FILS By B Izzak conspiracy theories KUWAIT: MPs Riyadh Al-Adasani and Abdulkarim Al- Kandari said yesterday they will file a request next week Never-ending drama to grill the prime minister over alleged payments of cash grants through lawmakers and general misman- agement. Later, MP Hussein Quwaiaan said he will join the two MPs in the grilling. The announcement came after Shiite MP Abdullah Al-Tameemi admitted that he mediated cash grants from the office of Prime Minister HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah for needy people By Badrya Darwish and husseiniyas (Shiite places of worship). The revelation by Tameemi was a shock for several MPs, especially after he revealed in a television inter- view that several other MPs have mediated similar cash grants. Tameemi did not reveal the amounts he received [email protected] and on how many occasions and whether they were only intended for husseiniyas or individuals too. Later in the day, Tameemi issued a written statement arliament after parliament, we’re facing the same explaining that the cash grants were never received by issues. We’re tired. We’re fatigued. It’s a never-end- him and transferred directly to the beneficiaries. He said Ping drama. When are you going to put a stop to this that he only mediated the payments on purely social game? Our parliament is becoming like Turkish soap purposes and not political ones. He explained that he operas that are loved by the Arab world. had helped arrange similar grants in the previous How many parliaments are revolving around the Assembly elected in Dec 2012 but dissolved in June the same issues, of grilling or accusing or threatening to grill following year, but insisted that he had never received each other? They started during the time of Sheikh the payments personally. Nasser Al-Mohammad, and we’ve had like six parliaments Kandari said in a statement that revelations by and a new grilling every day, from oil geishas in Japan, Tameemi reminded him of the so-called bank deposits cash handouts and money transfers to the failure of the scandal which involved at least 13 members of the 2009 Dow deal, corruption, etc. Even with a new prime minis- Assembly who allegedly received around KD 100 million ter, still the same issues and the same threats. in political bribes from the government. As a result, They are starting the same game with Prime Minister Kandari said he and Adasani decided to submit the Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak. And if he is fed up and decides KUWAIT: MPs Riyadh Al-Adasani (left), Abdulkarim Al- grilling next week on two counts, the payment of cash he wants to quit this game, I’m sure the coming prime Kandari and Hussein Quwaiaan (inset), who will file a request grants to MPs and the general policies of the govern- minister will face the same situation. to grill the prime minister next week, are seen at the ment. So is this the fashion of running the country or what? National Assembly yesterday. — Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh Continued on Page13 How many parliaments are wasting the time of the nation? I’m watching the American Congress, I’m watch- ing the House of Commons in London and the Duma in Russia and other parliaments around the world. We never KNPC signs oil deals, tenders others see this issue of grilling for trivial matters and even if KUWAIT: The Kuwait National Petroleum Company yes- five-package project to build a state-of-the-art refinery there are serious questions, it doesn’t consume the entire terday signed contracts worth $12 billion with three with a capacity of 615,000 bpd, project manager Khaled term of the parliament. Are there no other serious issues international consortia to upgrade two refineries and Al-Awadhi told reporters. The two tenders are for to be solved for Kuwait? All is well? All is perfect, 100 per- invited bids to build a new multibillion-dollar refinery. marine works and storage tanks. Next month, the com- cent? State-owned KNPC’s chief Mohammed Al-Mutairi pany will tender the three main packages for building The parliament has become like a stereotyped group signed the contracts with the three consortia led by the body of the Al-Zour refinery, said Awadhi, adding of old ladies sitting in the morning, having their chai and Britain’s Petrofac, US Fluor and Japan’s JGC Corporation. that KNPC hopes to award all the five contracts in the knitting or crocheting and gossiping about their neigh- Most of the other companies in the consortia are South first quarter of next year. The refinery, estimated to cost bors or each other. But at least these little old ladies pro- Korean. Mutairi said the project is due to be completed around $15 billion, is slated to come onstream in duce a jumper or a blanket at the end of all their chatting in early 2018. between the end of 2018 and the first quarter of 2019, and gossip. But what is this parliament accomplishing for The cost of the venture - called the Clean Fuel Project Awadhi said. The Zour refinery, which will become the us, may I know? - is more than $13 billion if smaller preparatory con- biggest in the Middle East, will make oil products such Corruption is on the rise everywhere. No new projects tracts are added, lower than the previous estimated as diesel, kerosene and naphtha for export and low-sul- and no development. We just hear of projects costing bil- cost of $16.4 billion, project manager Abdullah Al-Ajmi phur fuel oil for domestic power stations. lions passing without being studied or scrutinized by the told AFP. The contracts, the first mega project in the Kuwait’s refining capacity will reach over 1.4 million Audit Bureau. Useful projects scrapped and no one OPEC member’s vital oil sector for 25 years, will upgrade bpd from the current level of 930,000 bpd, when the knows why. We hear of hospitals and power plants and two of the three existing refineries by installing 37 projects are completed. Most of the production will be metro stations and summer after summer comes and we advanced processing units that will reduce sulphur and for export to Asian and European markets, Awadhi don’t see any improvement. Public schools suck although carbon pollutants, Mutairi told reporters. said. The two projects have been repeatedly delayed billions are spent on them, and the majority of students The current production capacity of the two refineries because of political disputes between parliament and attend private schools and pay for private tuitions. of Mina Al-Ahmadi and Mina Abdullah is around the government. The project to build a new refinery What other projects are working? KAC for instance, 730,000 barrels per day, while the capacity of Kuwait’s was scrapped by the government around five years KUWAIT: Chief Executive Officer of KNPC which has been semi-grounded for the last 20 years? And third refinery at Shuaiba is 200,000 bpd. At the end of ago, after five Japanese and South Korean companies Mohammad Ghazi Al-Mutairi (left) and Chairman now we are hearing of new planes, also bought in ques- the project, the capacity of the two refineries will were awarded contracts. Lawmakers had opposed the and Representative Director of Japan’s JGC Corp-led tionable circumstances. But nevertheless, I hope it works. increase to 800,000 bpd, while Kuwait plans to shut the plan complaining of a lack of transparency in the ten- consortium Keisuke Tkeushi shake hands during the What about real estate and housing and the cost of a third refinery. dering process, but they have not raised objections to signing ceremony of the Clean Fuel Project contract small plot of land? My goodness! KNPC yesterday began inviting bids for two of the the new contracts. — AFP yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 5) What else can I talk about? I’ll ask the honorable gen- tlemen of the parliament, whenever they have the time to spare, to look at what Kuwait needs. Saudis seize Social networks drugs worth make woman lose $267m, nab 6 custody of 4 kids RIYADH: Saudi Arabian police have arrested six people and seized illegal drugs worth 1 billion riyals By A Saleh ($267 million) that were being smuggled into the country from neighbouring Bahrain, the Interior KUWAIT: The appeals court upheld an unprecedented court Ministry said yesterday. Spokesman Major General order that cost a woman custody of her four children due to her Mansour Turki said five Saudi citizens and one ‘disgraceful behavior’ on social networks. The court of first Bahraini had been detained in the operation after instance had given a Kuwaiti man custody over his four children police uncovered 22.6 million amphetamine pills last year after he contested that his ex-wife was unfit to raise the hidden inside coils of barbed wire and rolls of plas- kids. The man had presented the court with images that docu- tic. Drug smuggling can be punished by death in mented chat sessions containing “disgraceful remarks that the conservative Islamic kingdom.
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