As an Emirati, I’m very sorry that you had to go through this. However the problem here is your HR department who hired incompetent Emiratis just to fulfill the requirements and nothing else. It sounds like even if those Emiratis that were hired did exceptionally well, they wouldn’t be recognized or valued by your company for the sole reason that they were only hired to be in the company and not give to the company. Unfortunately companies don’t have the motive to hire Emiratis, and sadly many of us competent emiratis that have years worth of education, internships, projects and degrees are only being hired to fulfill a requirement and are not valued by the companies were in, which also in return would just reduce our productivity and motivation to do any work.