A KING IN
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Imagine that you are a civil servant* working in the Jordanian National Insurance Institute and a customer starts to ask a lot of questions about the amount of money you have in your till* and how long a transaction normally takes. At first you might not be very suspicious but if the questions continue and the person seems intent on getting concrete answers you may start to suspect that something is not right. An inspector or perhaps a potential thief? Perhaps you would invite the 'customer' into the manager's office and offer him a coffee. Then you might ask him to identify himself under the threat* of calling the police. Last month in the Jordanian city of Zarka one such curious 'customer' identified himself as King Abdala of Jordan and so naturally the police were not called and the civil servant went red in the face. |
But what was the King doing asking questions in a high street* office? Why didn't he make inquiries through the normal channels? The answer is very simple. This King seems to have a very different attitude when it comes to finding out how his country. really works day to day. He puts on a disguise and goes out on to the street and discovers the reality of Jordanian life for himself. No advisers, no civil servants covering up* the problems that people face daily, just the day to day reality of a poor country. |
He has also visited hospitals and will probably visit more places in the future. His disguise must be good because he is one of the least Jordanian looking people in the Kingdom. He has clear blue eyes and distinctly paler skin than his subjects. His portrait* is in every shop and home and his image constantly appears on T.V. When he has been discovered he has asked that nobody describes his adopted appearance so that he can continue using it. But why? King Abdala had an Anglo Saxon education. His formative years were nor spent in Jordan but in the best, and most expensive, schools and universities of the United Kingdom and the U.S.A. He is now discovering what it is like to be an ordinary citizen of his country. He wasn't expected to be king but his father decided that he would be a better one than his brothers. So far it seems that the old King was right. |
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