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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 26: MP Osama Al-Shaheen submitted a bill to amend Law No. 2/2016 on the establishment of Kuwait Anti- Corruption Authority (Nazaha) in order to obligate the prime minister, ministers, National Assembly speaker and MPs to submit their financial disclosures to Nazaha and make them available to the citizens.
MP Osama Al-Shaheen Al-Shaheen pointed out that the current law obligates the abovementioned individuals to submit their financial disclosures in sealed envelopes to Nazaha and the contents can be revealed only if requested by the judicial authority in case the relevant individual is subjected to investigation. He said the bill aims to provide citizens with facts about the financial status of the prime minister, ministers, Assembly speaker and MPs for citizens to follow up and question them any time.
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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 24: The Budgets and Final Accounts Committee in the National Assembly on Sunday met with representatives of the Foreign Affairs Ministry. However, Committee Rapporteur MP Badr Al-Dahoum disclosed the meeting was inconclusive because the officials who represented the ministry are not high ranking as needed.
He pointed out the committee expected interim Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Nasser Al-Muhammad or Deputy Minister Khalid Al-Jarallah to represent the ministry, but they did not attend the meeting. He said the committee will not hold meetings under the interim government without the acting minister or undersecretary.
In another development, MP Osama Al-Shaheen criticized the call of some parties to allow liquor for personal consumption under the pretext that the liquor ban increased the number of drug addicts. He stressed that liquor is strictly prohibited as per the Islamic Sharia and Kuwaiti laws.