the seventh day
Saturday ، 30 July 2016 05:28 PM
Partners for Transparency - PFT issued its first annual report for monitoring and analyzing incidents of corruption, which covers the period from July 2015 to June 2016, as it includes a compilation and analysis of the facts that have been monitored during the whole year, as well as monitoring the most important legislative and procedural developments and political positions related The link to the anti-corruption issue during the mentioned period.
The report pointed to the absence of the legislative role due to the absence of parliament during the period from July 2015 until mid-January 2016, pointing out that parliament and after its convening were busy preparing its internal regulations, then approving the legislations that were issued in his absence, and he did not clearly discuss laws in order to combat corruption. Formation of Parliament's Special Committees Reject a proposal to form a committee to combat corruption.
The report added that the last period revealed that Egypt is facing the problem of the existence of many weak laws that need to be reformulated in order to be able to curb the phenomenon of widespread corruption in institutions. The urgent need to expand the powers, achieve independence and raise the efficiency of the relevant regulatory institutions, which is consistent with the provisions of the 2014 Constitution, However, it has not yet been reflected in tangible steps over the past year.
The report also indicated that the fiscal year 2015/2016 witnessed widespread moves by the Administrative Control Authority, which seized several corruption cases in which some senior officials were involved, and that there are many evidences indicating that this supervisory body received remarkable political support, to the point that the president assigned it to form a technical committee. To assess the projects implemented by the state.
The report indicated that despite the shortcomings of the legislative and procedural steps during the past year, the same period witnessed momentum at the level of political statements and positions related to combating corruption, as it was evident in the speeches and statements of the President of the Republic the interest of the Presidency in adopting a political discourse emphasizing the fight against corruption and urging citizens, ministers and governors Fighting corruption and declaring the state’s interest in fighting corruption, and there were numerous statements of most ministers and governors in the same direction.
And at the level of the facts that were revealed, the report indicated that the incidents amounted to 1,102 incidents during the fiscal year 2015/2016, as the Ministry of Supply won the largest share of corruption incidents with 215 incidents of 19.77%, followed by localities with 127 incidents of approximately 11.5%. Then health with a score of 97 incidents of corruption with a score of 8.8%, then the Ministry of Agriculture with a score of 88 incidents of 7.9%, followed by the Ministry of Interior with a score of 76 incidents of 6.89%, followed by the Ministry of Education with a score of 59 incidents of corruption with a ratio of 5.35%, then the Ministry of Finance with a score of 49 incidents with a score of 4.441 TP1T, then the Ministry of Housing with a score of 36 incidents, a score of 3.26%.
With regard to the distribution of corruption incidents according to the status of the case during the period from July 2015 until June 2016, the report revealed that the incidents under investigation had the largest share of the number of incidents, as 728 corruption incidents were recorded out of a total of 1,102 incidents, with a percentage of 66%, while the facts under trial recorded 173 incidents, a rate of 16 %, then comes the incidents that were not investigated with a score of 144 incidents, with a score of 13 %, and came in the last place the incidents that were judged with a score of 57 incidents, with a score of 5%.
