DUBAI: In a rare display of anger in Kuwait, thousands of citizens took to the streets on Wednesday in the largest anti-governmnet protest. According to reports from the small country, some 10,000 people poured out to demonstrate against corruption. “Your highness, corruption under the governments of Sheikh Nasser has reached new highs … Your highness the country is at risk … the premier does not deserve to stay,” said lawmaker Faisal al-Muslim, addressing the emir, while saying that the populace sought the removal of the premier and the parliament, local newspapers reported. The prime minister, who was appointed in February 2006, is a member of the ruling family and nephew of Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, the emir. The demonstrations have been growing in the country after revelations of a massive government corruptions scandal became public. The case involves multi-million deals and has largely left many of the people in Kuwait angry. “We have always thought of ourselves as immune to these kind of dealings, but I guess not and this is very frustrating,” Yussif Abdallah, a Kuwaiti marketing assistance in the capital, Kuwait City, told Bikyamasr.com via telephone. “We are angry. People are angry and we want change to happen.” MP Mussallam al-Barrak, in addressing the demonstrators on Wednesday, said that Sheikh Nasser was incompetent and could not be trusted with leading the government. He accused the prime minister of having made 485 “suspicious money transfers” mostly to Geneva, London, and New York since April 2006. A parliamentarian among the protesters warned the government that the demonstrations would continue until the fall of Sheikh Nasser's government. BM
