Why should an employed father receiving a salary of SR10,000 a month pay half that amount for his four sons’ mobile phone bills? Not only that, sometimes these men’s budgets are so squeezed that they have to seek help from philanthropists. How disgusting and degrading for any man? What would compel a man to seek help in solving such trivial problems?
Further, is the mobile so essential that society must collaborate in solving its problems? It is no secret that many people with neither need nor financial resources to pay the bills possess mobile phones. Some people use these unpaid bills as a reason to go begging from a philanthropist. Frankly, I cannot imagine that electricity bills are a burden to anyone. It is amazing to see many individuals approaching motorists at traffic lights and asking for help in paying their utility bills! These very bills have become a means of illegal business for many.
Utility bills became one of the illegal means of lucrative business for many. In fact, a beggar may ask a man for help with his utility bill when in fact, the beggar is better off than the man he is begging from. There are even those who ask for help; they don’t want the bill to be paid for them - they want the cash so they can pay it themselves. This new flood of beggars we are experiencing in the Kingdom is encouraged by another group which collects money in the name of charity. The money of course never reaches a chairty and is in fact taken for their own personal use by those who have collected it. These things should be dealt with harshly before they take root in our society.
