Dot Egypt

Saturday 17 June 2017

Samara Sultan wrote

Partners for Transparency issued the twenty-third report of the Corruption Status Book series, which dealt with monitoring and analysis of legislative and procedural developments related to combating corruption, enumerating the facts that were revealed during the month of May 2017 and classifying them by sector, geography and judiciary.

May 2017 witnessed the holding of a number of events and activities in some academic institutions, ministries, and government departments in the context of awareness and education related to combating corruption, and there were frequent statements by some officials related to the nature of the general trend and political performance related to fighting corruption and wasting public money.

The supervisory performance of the House of Representatives this month is dominated by the submission of a number of requests for information related to incidents of corruption and waste of public money, while the legislative role is still completely absent in this regard, and the month of May 2017 witnessed the signing of a cooperation protocol between administrative control and the World Bank in the field of strengthening governance.

Judicially, the incidents under investigation still came first among corruption incidents during the month of May 2017, as the largest percentage was recorded at 64% out of a total of 75 incidents, followed by the incidents under trial with a score of 20%, and then came the facts that were judged by 9 %. It did not achieve the last place by 7% .

Monitoring data in May indicated that the local sector came in first place among corruption incidents, with 15 incidents, while the Ministry of Supply ranked second with 13 corruption incidents, followed by the Ministry of Health with 11 incidents of corruption, then the Ministry of Education came with 5 incidents, then The Ministry of the Interior with 4 incidents, followed by the Ministry of Finance, Housing and Endowments with 3 incidents of corruption for each of them.

Geographically, Cairo governorate still acquired the largest share of corruption incidents during May 2017, as it obtained 22 incidents of corruption during May 2017, followed by Giza governorate with 13 incidents of corruption, then Qalyubia governorate with 10 incidents, followed by Alexandria Governorate with 8 incidents.

Monitoring the most important requests for briefing and statements of representatives

Representative Enas Abdel Halim, a member of the Health Affairs Committee in the House of Representatives, confirmed that she will hold a press conference inside the House of Representatives in the presence of the members of the House to present a detailed report with documents on, incidents of corruption pertaining to Mansoura University and its president, as well as documents proving their involvement in wasting public money

Counselor Ali Rizk ordered the head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority to open an urgent investigation into the rumors about the leakage of the Arabic language exam for the second semester of the first secondary class of the Abu Nomros Educational Administration in Giza Governorate on one of the Facebook pages. The head of the authority ordered the speedy determination of disciplinary responsibilities and heavy penalties for Who is proven to be involved in that

Engineer John Talaat, a member of Parliament from Cairo Governorate, said that localities do not play their role, and there are neighborhoods without a president, adding that one of the reasons for the corruption of localities is the presence of a large percentage of corrupt employees who deliberately disrupt the interests of citizens in order to obtain a financial compensation, following that the largest corruption bloc in Egypt exists In the localities, unfortunately, the Ministry of Local Development does not play its role in this matter

5 Dr. Ahmed Al-Arjawy, a member of the House of Representatives from Al-Buhaira Governorate, confirmed that he submitted a briefing request to the Speaker of Parliament addressed to Eng. Sherif Ismail and the Minister of Local Development on corruption in the Cooperative Union in Al-Buhaira Governorate, which includes that the cooperative union in Al-Buhaira Governorate, specifically in the city of Abu Homs, is involved in corruption 11 shops were taken at a rent of 19 pounds, and they are leased to other citizens in secret, pointing out that these shops have very high prices.

Representative Hisham Wali, a member of the House of Representatives’s Suggestions and Complaints Committee, assured that the main reason behind submitting a bill to curb government employee corruption is the weakness of the law currently in force as it was issued more than 38 years ago, which led to its containment of many loopholes that a public servant exploits to impose his authority. A simple citizen

Fathi al-Sharqawi, a member of Parliament, submitted a request to the Minister of Irrigation because of the workers in the development and protection of the Nile River, accusing them of wasting public money, as he explained that the workers in the sector are interested in preserving the river from encroachments and removing weeds and plants. The Nile is easy to collect and remove from the river because of the danger it poses to the water, and this is with the aim of adopting a larger budget every year to remove it, especially since they are the first beneficiaries of this issue.

Deputy Essam El-Feki, Secretary of the Plan and Budget Committee in the House of Representatives, confirmed that the committee has completed its report on the final account for the year 2015-2016, pointing out that the state has nearly 50 losing economic bodies except for the Suez Canal Authority only, as the committee requested the formation of fact-finding committees to search for funds The loser for three bodies, namely the Railway Authority, which recorded a debt of 47 billion pounds, the Radio and Television Union, which consists of 23 channels and 60 radio stations, which reached 32 billion, and the Agricultural Development and Reconstruction Authority

Within the framework of its expansions, the Administrative Control Authority opened a headquarters for the Administrative Prosecution in New Damietta, where the head of the Administrative Prosecution Authority emphasized that the work in the administrative prosecution is governed by the law and the preservation of state funds and the safety of its interests and the safety of work in its public facilities. He also added that confronting corruption is the original work of the Administrative Prosecution. In the past era, the administrative prosecution did not encounter violations of circumstances that only God came to know.

Deputy Mustafa Salem, deputy of the Budget Committee in the House of Representatives, accused the Drinking Water and Sanitation Authority of wasting public money

The Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation announced the total removal that took place on state lands belonging to the General Authority for Agrarian Reform, which amounted so far to about one million and 138 thousand and 688 square meters of building lands, 48 acres, 20 carats and 7 shares of land, according to 4427 decision to remove

A judicial source revealed that the graft received about 12 new requests for reconciliation in the case of wheat corruption, and the agency is still examining the seriousness of these requests or not, pointing out that all of the accused persons mentioned in the wheat corruption investigations, numbering 131, have submitted their financial disclosure statements and they are the owners of some silos And workers in the relevant ministries, Supply, Agriculture, and the Export and Import Control Authority

Member of Parliament Muhammad Al-Koumi revealed, during a press conference held at the Free Egyptians Party headquarters, many surprises in the file of corruption and neglect in the "Educational Buildings Authority"

Where he explained that he submitted a complaint to the Attorney General, the Administrative Prosecutor, the Governor of Cairo and the Minister of Education against the General Authority for Educational Buildings after the loss of Abdel Halim Mahmoud’s land, on which a school complex was to be built to face the crisis of classroom density.