Since the January revolution and the conversation has not ceased to fight corruption, then the days pass to discover that the whole matter did not exceed words in words .. The evidence is that most ministries have announced the establishment of internal mechanisms to combat corruption, and almost all government agencies have formed committees to combat corruption, and all of them also - - Dozens of meetings, seminars and training workshops related to combating corruption were held .. and 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 to fight corruption and to announce the state’s interest in fighting corruption, and many ministers and governors made frequent statements. In the same direction .. After all this, what was the result? .. The result is corruption that increases and strengthens, and the greatest evidence for that is what happened in the Ministries of Agriculture and Supply.

Former Minister of Agriculture Salah Hilal, when he assumed his ministerial position in early March 2015, decided to form an anti-corruption committee that included the ministry’s advisers, a representative of the Central Auditing Agency and a representative of the Administrative Prosecution, and the committee practiced its work and referred a number of ministry officials to the prosecution on charges of corruption.

And after only 6 months, after assuming his ministerial position, that is, in early September 2015, "Hilal" announced that within hours he would reveal a major corruption case in one of the ministry's sectors, within the framework of a tight plan in cooperation with the regulatory agencies.

And when the hours passed, the minister did not reveal the corruption case that he had promised, and when he himself submitted his resignation from the government on the background of accusations of corruption, and only 7 minutes after his resignation, he was arrested on charges of corruption!

After his arrest, the minister said that he is a victim of mafia in the Ministry of Agriculture!

Almost the same thing was said by the resigned Minister of Supply Khaled Hanafi a few hours before submitting his resignation .. He said literally: “When I took over the ministry, I was told that I had entered the hornet's nest, and that the mafia would not escape me, and that it (the mafia) will chant in many colors, and wear many dresses, and you will come to me From different doors, and you won't win me ”.

And when Hanafi submitted his resignation, he said, "God is sufficient for us, and yes, the agent", clearly indicating that he had been wronged.

The words of the two ministers "Hilal" and "Hanafi" carry dangerous indications, foremost of which is that corruption in Egypt is stronger than the ministers themselves .. So has corruption in Egypt reached this level of brutality? .. Answers Dr. Walaa Gaballah - Director of the Partners for Transparency Foundation. Corruption is more brutal than many imagine, and beyond imagination. ”

I asked him: Is he among the ministers and elders only?

He said: Unfortunately, corruption has affected everything .. the ministers and officials of the first and second ranks, and these are specifically a more dangerous disaster, because they have certainty that any minister, regardless of his strength and might, will leave his position while they remain, and that is why their corruption is more dangerous than the corruption of ministers, especially since most These people seek to spoil the minister himself, in order to "catch humiliation on him, or so that no one is better than someone."

I went back to asking him: Why did corruption spread so ferociously?

He said: The fight against corruption depends strongly on the strength of legislation and the strictness of its implementation, which has not happened until now, as the legislative role was absent from the absence of parliament during the period from July 2015 until mid-January 2016, and the parliament and after its convening was busy preparing its basic regulations, then approving the legislation that was issued In his absence, he did not explicitly discuss laws to combat corruption, and during the process of forming Parliament's specific committees, he rejected a proposal to form a committee to combat corruption.

On top of this, we suffer a terrible gap in anti-corruption legislation, as the current legislation is still unable to confront corruption, in addition to the absence of important anti-corruption legislation, including legislation to protect whistleblowers and witnesses, and the freedom of information, and the laws governing the work of regulatory agencies prevent them from combating corruption in a form. Serious, but in order to be true, and it is fair to point out that the Administrative Control Authority has witnessed large movements during the last year, and has seized several corruption cases involving some high-ranking officials, and there are many evidences indicating that this supervisory body receives remarkable political support, to the point that the President of the Republic He assigned it to form a technical committee to evaluate projects implemented by the state.