By MOHAMMED AL A'ALI
MANAMA
JOB-SEEKERS denied access to the National Employment Project are trying to scare others away by spreading rumours about haunted job centres, officials said yesterday. According to reports by workers at the Northern Governorate's job centre, electricity was going on and off, a knife was found sticking out of the floor and a necklace was hanging from the ceiling.
It has also been reported that the centre's employees fled from the rented villa after hearing stories that it was haunted from residents in Abu Saiba village.
However, Labour Ministry Assistant Under-Secretary for Training and project director Ahmed Al Banna said the rumours were baseless and that they were being spread to scare people from registering at the centre.
"The office has been open for the past three months without any problems and employees are being shifted on a regular basis according to a rotation scheme we are carrying out at all of our centres," he told the GDN.
"These are things that no one can believe and where were the ghosts when we rented the place.
"People are wiser than this and those behind it are laughing their heads off, because people are believing them."
Northern Municipal Council public utilities and services committee chairman Sayed Alawi Sharaf laughed off the incident, saying that maybe the ghosts were looking for work.
"This could be possible considering that there were a lot of Bahrainis who are jobless, maybe it is not just human beings but ghosts too," he said.
"I have heard that April Fools Day was just a few days away, maybe people wanted to bring it forward to March.
"It is clear that those behind the joke are job-seekers who went to the centre and were not accepted for the scheme, so they decided to spread lies and scare people interested in getting jobs."
Mr Sharaf said a few years back someone in the same area placed a perfumed rock in the middle of a ma'tam and told people it was blessed.
"So many women went to the ma'tam and started rubbing their faces and hands with the rock, believing it was blessed, while the person behind the joke was laughing at them," he said.
"The problem is simple-minded people believe everything and if people told them that a chicken had a coloured chick, they would go to get the chick's blessings."
Mr Sharaf, who used to be an Electricity and Water Ministry employee, said that the incident was not possible.
"I will inspect the place on Saturday, maybe I will take a mob with me to scare the ghosts away," he joked.
"Everything has a logical explanation and I will go there to see it for myself."
Source: http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.as ... ueID=29003
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