| Residents at Sawaber complain at poor condition |
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti residents at the Sawaber Complex have called on local paper Al-Watan Daily to carry their message to decision makers and save them from the miserable situation they are in, because 70 per cent of the residents in the area are now expatriate Asian bachelors.
Another issue is that the complex which was constructed 19 years ago to house Kuwaiti families meeting the conditions of housing care, has no maintenance or cleaning to a point where the first-time visitor may doubt that they are even in Kuwait, although the complex is in the heart of Kuwait City. Trash and discarded items are everywhere, lifts are decaying and floors have become magnets for dirt.
The residents said that one feels like a stranger in the complex because it has became like any Asian or African neighborhood as the Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Ethiopian workers have become mixed together.
The complex residents who met with Al-Watan did not want their pictures taken, saying that they felt embarrassed at the situation they are in, and out of fear that other expats might take revenge on them in various ways, such as damaging their cars.
Residents told the paper that among the methods being used by other expatriates to attempt to drive them out are spitting and urinating in the lifts, stairwells and passageways which they find extremely upsetting.
The area's mayor, Maher Maarafi, confirmed that policemen have recorded many cases of harassment at the complex, adding that police attention has reduced the number of illegal acts there.
Kuwaiti women living in the area asked how state officials might feel if their own wives were to wake them in the morning to tell them that their kitchen and bathroom drainage systems were clogged due to the system's inability deal with the capacity. - Kuwait Times |
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26/01/2009 |
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