More from the Schoolyard!

Continuing with the school yard politics of this country..

Today’s lesson is about our ministries!

Now, to the untrained eye, all of our ministries are simply incompetent (the same could be said with all Arab countries) or like we say “Maashiya ala ilbaraka” meaning that they’re winging it most of the time and only plan to fill newspaper columns with ‘innovative projects’ and ‘reform’ rather than actually improve their services!

But if you look deeper into each ministry you’ll find out that each one has their own classroom characteristic

Firstly we’ve got the ‘Bully’ ministry, a ministry that basically cannot do any wrong although all evidence is against them yet react (some times aggressively) when receiving a finger pointed at them (no not that finger) in accusation. A fellow blogger has written a bit about two ministries which fall into this category : The Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Health

But what I want to write about today is a characteristic which many ministries are, The Excuse-less Daft Ones

Like the kids who used to sit on the middle left side of the class, where everyone in the class has to turn around to witness their stupidity and daftness.

Although there are way too many examples, I just want to show one example in the newspaper a couple of days ago in particular, The Ministry of Municipality Affairs and Agriculture

This is from today’s Al-Wasat Newspaper:

قالت وزارة شئون البلديات والزراعة إن اختصاص الوزارة بشأن فشتي العظم والجارم «ينحصر في ناحية الملكية العامة لهذين الفشتين وغيرهما من الفشوت إلى جانب الحدود الجغرافية والمساحة الكلية للفشوت»، نافية مسئوليتها عن «المشاريع الموجودة من ناحية التحديث والمحافظة».

جاء ذلك في مذكرة الرد على السؤال المقدم من النائب السيدعبدالله مجيد العالي بشأن الفشوت عامة وفشتي العظم والجارم خاصة، الذي ورد في نصه: «ما الخطوات التي اتخذتها وزارة شئون البلديات والزراعة فيما يخصها بشأن الفشوت عامة وفشتي العظم والجارم خاصة؟ وما دور الوزارة في تنفيذ توصيات لجنة التحقيق بشأنها؟ وما برامج وخطط الوزارة للمحافظة على الفشوت وضمان عدم التعدي عليها؟ وما الإجراءات التي اتخذتها الوزارة فيما تعرض له فشت الجارم من تخريب وتدمير متعمد للمنشآت الموجودة فيه؟».

وفيما يتعلق بما تعرضت له بعض المنشآت التي تم إنشاؤها في الفترة السابقة والكائنة في الجزر الصناعية في الفشوت بينت الوزارة أنها «ليست مسئولة عن المنشآت الموجودة في الفشت وتطويرها أو الحفاظ عليها، إذ إن هذه الموجودات بنيت في الفترة السابقة من قبل شركة خاصة من غير معرفة الوزارة».

Now MP S.Abdulla Al-Aali from Al-Wefaq bloc recently asked about the coral reefs around Bahrain and who are responsible for them after discovering that some construction and reclamation have been done to coral reefs in recent times.

Now everyone would expect that being the Ministry of Municipalities and Agriculture, that they would be responsible for every inch of land, coral reef and sea but no, we are all mistaken!

Apparently, they are not responisble according to the article and all the construction happened BEFORE!

Yes, ministers in the country are changed in the same frequency Justin Timberlake changes his underwear in a day

but one must think, will all the ministry changes, we barely see any development because the employees further down the ladder are not changing nor improving, and maybe in most cases getting even worse!

When will this ‘blame it on someone else’ mentality end?? It’s ruining what we can be and won’t realize it until we fall face down in the mud then we can’t find anyone to blame but ourselves..