Kuwait: Kuwaiti Minister of Electricity and Water Mohammed Bushehri on Sunday resigned from his post, only two weeks after his appointment.
Bushehri is the second Kuwaiti minister to resign within a month, after Ghadeer Asiri, who was the Minister of Social Affairs, resigned only one month after her appointment.
He resigned after the Kuwaiti Court of Cessation found him guilty of leaking official documents from the ministry when he was a senior employee there. In December, Kuwait formed a new government a month after the former Cabinet minister quit due to a row between members of the ruling family and parliament.
Khaled Ali Al Fadhel, the oil minister, has been appointed as acting minister of electricity and water.
The government of Sheikh Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah was formed in December.
The court ordered the resigned minister and another employee at the ministry to pay a fine of KD4,000 ($13,000). In his resignation letter, published in the local media, Bushehri said he was proud his achievements in his short tenure.
He added that ever since he was appointed an engineer at the Ministry of Electricity and Water, he had put Kuwait’s interest above any other interest.
