KUWAIT CITY, Dec 26: Kuwaiti citizens’ wives whose citizenship has been scrapped under Article Eight of the Citizenship Law are to keep getting their full monthly salary, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) said Thursday. All state bodies have been instructed to continue paying salaries to those wives whose citizenship has been revoked in line with the Citizenship Law, CSC Chairman Dr. Essam Al-Rubaiaan told KUNA. Female employees would also retain their public jobs as per renewable annual contracts as of the day their citizenship is revoked, he reassured.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Committee of Kuwaiti Citizenship on Thursday announced stripping 3,701 people of Kuwaiti citizenship and that the decision in this regard would be referred to the Cabinet. The Ministry of Interior said in a statement that the decision was made during the committee’s meeting on Thursday, chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yousef Saud Al-Sabah. The Kuwaiti citizenship was revoked for the individuals according to articles 10 and 11 of the Kuwaiti citizenship law number 15/1959, said the ministry statement, adding that five of the individuals had dual citizenship. The statement said that 94 individuals, who had acquired the citizenship for being relatives to the ones who had gotten it irregularly through fraud and allegations, would be also stripped of their nationality. It added that the citizenship granted to 3,599 people from 54 countries has be revoked, along with a single person in the 1959 (year) category.