“Why Did You Kill the Horse, Mr. Hamed Al-Hajri?”: Implications for Climate Change and Management

“Why Did You Kill the Horse, Mr. Hamed Al-Hajri?�: Implications for Climate Change and Management "We do not inherit the Earth from our parents; we borrow it from our children" (Native American Wisdom)

Published on December 11, 2019

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Ali Mansouri Page 1 of 7

Writer, Researcher, Consultant

Introduction Hamed Al-Hajri is the Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Administration and Finance at A’Sharqiyah University in Oman. He kept doing abnormal things without consulting with the first VC of A’Sharqiyah University or anyone else. He thus made many terrible blunders causing serious problems and damages to the academic work and reputation of the University.

The first VC had no option but to sack him. We felt happy and relieved. But when Abood AlSawafi was appointed as the VC of A’Sharqiyah University in the Academic Year 2013-2014, he reinstated Hamed Al-Hajri as he found in him a strong hand for deception, thievery and reckless behavior. This is how Hamed Al-Hajri was given another chance to continue with his episodes of destruction and corruption.

In spite of his very bad reputation as a senior executive at the University and in spite of his wickedness and corruption, he still holds his position and abuses his office against all work ethics and universal human values. He has recently posted a number of pictures on the Internet to celebrate the Oman National Day on 18 November 2019. One picture, in particular, is really shocking, very disgusting, and very repulsive. It shows, as you can see above, the newly-appointed VC of A’Sharqiyah University posing happily and with a dead horse covered with the Omani National flag! We have never expected to see such a picture posted by a higher education institution in Oman. The picture is very unacceptable, deplorable, and offensive. The picture has been taken at the orders of Hamed Al-Hajri.

Disrespect to Omani Flag I was really shocked when I saw the picture for the first time. How could anyone be so disrespectful to the Omani National flag and use it as a piece of cloth to cover a dead horse?

Is this how nations use and respect their national flags? The flag, as we all know, is a national symbol and should always be respected and used high up on masts in the sky and to decorate national heroes not be used as a piece of cloth to cover dead animals? I am sure Omani find this picture distasteful, repulsive, and disrespectful to their national flag whoever has taken the picture and posted it.

Becker, Butz, and Sibley (2017) examined the concepts and emotions people associate with their national flag, and how these associations are related to nationalism and patriotism across 11 countries. They found out that positive emotions, nationalism and patriotism concepts were associated with the national flags across these countries. (Julia C. Becker, David A. Butz, Chris G. Sibley, What Do National Flags Stand for? An Exploration of Associations Across 11 Countries, Sage Publishing) So the national flag represents a country and a nation, not only the government. Hamed AlHajri should respect the Oman National flag even if he has some disagreements or disputes with the government of Oman. Whatever disagreements or disputes we have with a particular Page 2 of 7

government or a policy of a country, we should respect the national flag of the nation. This is why I am against the disrespect or the burning of the flag of any nation because it is an insult to the whole nation and this does not help bring about peace to the world.

Cruelty to Animals The picture is also disgusting and repulsive to show a Vice-Chancellor of a University posing happily with a smile over a dead horse covered with the Omani flag on Oman National day.

Who killed the horse? And who ordered the killing? As far as I know, Omanis do not eat the meat of horses. They usually eat the meat of cows, sheep, goats, camels, and other domestic animals like any other Muslim nation. I just do not know if Hamed Al-Hajri, Abood AlSawafi, and other merciless and corrupt top executives at A’Sharqiyah University eat the meat of horses, dogs or cats though I am not surprised if they do that as they are notorious for being monsters and very bad vultures!

I love horses and love all animals and I feel very sad about the dead horse. I have a board about horses on the Pinterest website and I have posted some beautiful pictures of horses on the board. I enjoy looking at them from time to time and I feel very strongly if somebody poses happily with a dead horse or a horse just killed for a feast organized by a cruel and corrupt senior executive like Hamed Al-Hajri. This is a very disgusting sort of cruelty to animals. This is an act of barbarity, Mr. Hamed Al-Hajri. You are a barbarian.

Implications for Climate Change Eating a lot of meat and encouraging the slaughter of animals of different sorts and sizes like cows, camels, horses, goats, sheep, on a large scale as Abood Al-Sawafi and Hamed Al-Hajri do in A’Sharqiyah Region in Oman contribute a great deal to climate change. Many scientists advise human beings to reduce the consumption of meat on the Planet in order to help reduce climate change: “Bear in mind that the meat industry has now been linked to global warming in a major way.

Becoming Vegan or cutting down on your own personal meat consumption could be the single most effective action that you can do to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions.” (Earth Planet Herald, 2019, Online) “So, animal agriculture and meat consumption are significant contributors to global warming.” (Skeptical Science, 2019, Online) “One of the main ways in which the livestock sector contributes to global warming is through deforestation caused by the expansion of pasture land and arable land used to grow feed crops. Overall, animal agriculture is responsible for about 9% of human-caused carbon dioxide emissions globally.

Animal agriculture is also a significant source of other greenhouse gases. For example, ruminant animals like cattle produce methane, which is a greenhouse gas about 20 times Page 3 of 7

more potent than carbon dioxide. The livestock sector is responsible for about 37% of human-caused methane emissions, and about 65% of human nitrous oxide emissions (mainly from manure), globally.” (UN FAO) But Abood Al-Sawafi and Hamed Al-Hajri are ignorant and science-illiterate. For them, life without eating a lot of meat is not worth living. They are mere monsters and vultures. This is why they have always encouraged the slaughter of large numbers of animals on their farms and their Bedouin regions. As if this is not enough for them, they have transformed A’Sharqiyah University into a slaughterhouse. Of course, this is illegal in Oman. Slaughtering animals outside of the officially licensed slaughterhouses is strictly prohibited by law. But Abood Al-Sawafi and Hamed Al-Hajri have always put themselves above the law because there is no one in Oman who can hold them to account. I really do not know why they are illegally granted immunity from prosecution.

Implications for Management The complexities of a global and dynamic business world, where non-economic and economic concerns coexist, give ethics a vital role in guiding human action, always with the potential for human excellence in mind. This is the humanistic view of management which is always ignored by stupid, incompetent and vulgar senior managers in businesses and organizations. This naturally costs the organization a great deal of its reputation, image, and human resources.

Abood Al-Sawafi and Hamed Al-Hajri have created a very unhealthy work environment at A’Sharqiyah University because of their unlimited stupidity, narrow-mindedness, and vulgarity. Most of the qualified, experienced and hard-working people left, or made to leave, the University the reputation of which has been damaged beyond repairs. Abood Al-Sawafi has been sacked or made to resign but why do they keep Hamed Al-Hajri who is more corrupt and more wicked than any senior manager at A’Sharqiyah University?

Hamed Al-Hajri is in charge of everything at A’Sharqiyah University and he is directly in charge of all the publicity and public relations inside and outside the University. So a picture like this cannot be posted without his knowledge and endorsement. The newly-appointed VC who appears in the picture was ill-advised to pose by a dead horse covered with the Oman National flag or he is just silly and stupid or he is just another puppet controlled by Hamed Al-Hajri. It might also be another conspiracy from Hamed Al-Hajri against the current VC as he usually does that in order to be in full control of all the affairs of the University. Hamed Al-Hajri is a real villain and an evil master of conspiracies. He constantly conspires against the teachers and employees and even against his closest colleagues and bosses. In fact, he does not hesitate to conspire against his own father and mother! He conspired against the first VC of the University after Hamed Al-Hajri was caught red-handed stealing books and money from the University and taking dangerous and damaging decisions without consulting with the VC. So the first VC lost his job. Then he conspired against those talented and hardworking senior officers in different departments of the University: The Dean of the College of Engineering, the Dean of the College of Commerce and Administration, the Dean of the Page 4 of 7

College of Applied Sciences, the Director of the Language Center and Foundation Program, and some of the best engineering professors of the University. Then he conspired even against his closest boss and friend, Abood Al-Sawafi, who was inexperienced, naïve and a great idiot.

He has a very weak personality which Hamed Al-Hajri exploited in a very wicked way. This led Abood Al-Sawafi to make many blunders that turned his life into hell. So he was sacked because of Hamed Al-Hajri. The next target of his conspiracies, as the above picture shows, is clearly the recently- appointed VC who would not last long. Hamed Al-Hajri does not like anyone to watch him or hinder his thievery and corruption.

The reputation of A’Sharqiyah University has been going down the drain. The students, their families, the teachers and the community at large have come to know a great deal about what has been happening and what sort of damage being inflicted by Abood Al-Sawafi and Hamed Al-Hajri on the University’s academic programs. It makes you feel very sad to come to know that everyone associated with the University is still paying a very heavy price for the incompetence, bad management, and corruption of Hamed Al-Hajri.

As we have already said more than once, there are certainly some people in the Ministry of Higher Education in Oman who offer Hamed Al-Hajri protection and cover-up when he embezzles money from the University or makes blunders. Without this protection and coverup, Hamed Al-Hajri would not have been able to continue with his reckless, mafia-like actions of deception and conspiracies and would not have been inflicting heavy damages on the University’s academic reputation and infrastructure.

This very negative and damaging situation may be found in many businesses and organizations when the Board of Directors or Board of Trustees are incompetent, reckless, careless, unmotivated to lead, or they are themselves, corrupt people. They ignore or forget the fact that they are the very people who should take care of their organizations and stop any sort of corruption or irresponsible behavior.

Hamed Al-Hajri is the worst possible case of an ignorant, incompetent and unqualified senior manager you can ever find running a business or a university. He has spent his life as a camels’ breeder and the manager of a farm for chickens and goats. He is not fit to run a university for human beings. Abood Al-Sawafi has been forced to resign because of his fake degrees, blunders, incompetence, and corruption. We hope Hamed Al-Hajri and the other corrupt senior managers at A’Sharqiyah University will meet the same fate! There is no shortcut to fighting corruption.

What is more than bizarre about Hamed Al-Hajri is that he has crept into the position of the Assistant VC for Administration and Finance in spite of the fact that he does not have any academic credentials nor does he have any professional or higher education experience. All he has got, as he claims, is an MBA from an English-speaking country but, in fact, he can hardly produce one good sentence in English; something that testifies to his MBA being a fake degree! His experience is limited to his work as a Porter and then as a Consul at an embassy in Australia as he has mentioned in his LinkedIn profile! This experience does not, Page 5 of 7

in any way, qualify him to control the administration and finance of a university. However, we need to admit here that he is very good at “spying” on his colleagues and staff, which clearly indicates that he might have worked for a “spying agency” or has been trained as an “intelligence officer” somewhere in the world. Planting “spying cameras” everywhere at the University, even in the bathrooms, is something he has done with ease, comfort, and expertise. All the cameras are run by the IT department which is fully controlled by him. (For more details, read my article, “Who Is This Man?”: Implications for the Management of Businesses and Higher Education Institutions, published on October 31, 2018.)

One of the most emphasized items in the work contract is that you should respect all national, cultural and religious values of Oman, including all national and religious holidays. This is a very acceptable item in any work contract in the world and I do not have any objection to it.

But I expect the top executives of any company or a higher education institution in Oman and elsewhere to respect this item and honor the contract before they ask their employees to do so. Unfortunately, this has never been the case with Hamed Al-Hajri at A’Sharqiyah University in Oman. He never honors or respects any work contract nor does he respect any work ethics or national and cultural values. Making the VC pose with a dead horse covered with the Oman National flag on the occasion of Oman National Day is a blatant show of disrespect to national, cultural, and human values. It is also a deplorable disrespect to the National Day itself. This has greatly tarnished the reputation of the University and is a real stain on its image.

Conclusions Climate change is one of the most serious challenges facing the world nowadays. We urgently need to heed what scientists say and contribute positively to the fight against this change and to work hard to preserve our environment. This should be the responsibility of all human beings both as individuals and as top executives in organizations, companies, and higher education institutions.

Hamed Al-Hajri is the worst possible case of an ignorant, incompetent and unqualified senior manager you can ever find running a business or a university. He has spent his life as a camels’ breeder and the manager of a farm for cattle. He is not only unfit to run a university for human beings but he is also destroying the environment by transforming A’Sharqiyah University into a slaughterhouse for horses and camels. Instead of playing a positive role by educating students on the dangers of eating a lot of meat, he encourages them to eat more meat and pollute more, and thus do more harm to the environment. This is disgusting and very irresponsible behavior.

Abood Al-Sawafi has been forced to resign because of his fake degrees, blunders, incompetence, and corruption. We hope Hamed Al-Hajri and the other corrupt senior managers at A’Sharqiyah University will meet the same fate! There is no short-cut to fighting corruption and climate change.

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The reputation of A’Sharqiyah University has been going down the drain. The students, their families, the teachers and the community at large have come to know a great deal about the great damage inflicted by Abood Al-Sawafi (former VC) and Hamed Al-Hajri (Assistant VC) on the University. It is time these two monsters stopped being vultures and nasty polluters to the environment. A’Sharqiyah University should be an institution for higher education, not a slaughterhouse for innocent animals. It makes you feel very sad to come to know that everyone associated with the University is paying a very heavy price for the incompetence, bad management, and corruption of Hamed Al-Hajri.

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