Electric Corruption on the Gulf, a Shameless Generational Thing…………
“UAE: A construction worker has died and the number of people being treated in hospital for heat exhaustion has soared to four times the normal level as daily power cuts continue to hit Sharjah. And angry residents yesterday rounded on Sharjah Electricity and Water Authority (Sewa) for its continued silence over the cuts. Hassan Fawaz, 40, an engineer in Sharjah, said: “We had no power for 13 hours on Tuesday and today still we don’t have it from 10am and my count is so far six hours. Don’t we have any voice to reach out to the authorities? “All the Sewa public hotlines are not answered and the media is reporting Sewa refused to comment. This is disgusting, demeaning and self-defeating, but they seem to get away with it.” Meanwhile dozens of cases of heat exhaustion are being registered at the Kuwait hospital every day. Forty cases were reported on Tuesday and another 45 had been logged by 3pm yesterday, said Dr Nilova Qureshi, the director of the hospital’s emergency department. The figure was four times the average daily number and a direct consequence of the failures, she said. ………..”
Okay, the Iraqis have an excuse: they are still in a state of war against the Salafi terrorists who pour across their Arab borders and wreak havoc. And their infrastructure is still in shambles. Okay there is also a lot of corruption in Iraq. But what is the excuse for the rich GCC countries of the Gulf? I can understand that perhaps they have as much corruption as Iraq, but that surely can’t explain the yearly power outages during the hottest summer months, in every Gulf state perhaps with the exception of Qatar. Every year, for more than a generation in some states! Even the hapless and sectarian-divided Iraqis can’t probably do that bad.
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