Egyptian Chronicles: The Reshuffle Reasons

Since the announcement of the very limited reshuffle on Wednesday and the newspapers have not stopped wondering about the sudden Presidential decree,especially the reshuffle was too limited.

The main wonder was why the irrigation minister Mahmoud Abu-Zaid was sacked from the cabinet,it did not make any sense because there are much more worse and much more corrupted ministers in the current cabinet than him.

The official justification was that the man asked for his own exemption from his position for medical reasons !! What puzzled the people is that the man has never complained from any serious medical problem , he only suffers diabetes just like millions of Egyptian not to mention that Abu-Zaid was in his office when he was informed by the bad news !! Yes the man did not have the idea that it would be his last day.

People are sure that he was sacked for different reasons :

Toshka project , he is insisting on it.
He failed in protecting Egypt’s Nile Water Share. ”The Nile Basin Initiative”
His fight with the Ministry of Agriculture and some businessmen.

You can read about the possible reasons behind his exist from the ministry in Al Masry Al Youm , of course I doubt that it was Mubarak 100% decision , it is more likely Mubarak’s advisers decision !! Anyhow it will be unfair to blame the man for the Nile Basin initiative failure because it is not his mistake only , it is the mistake of Mubarak that he neglected the relations with the African countries in the first place for the past 27 years.

Believe or not Abu-Zaid is considered now a good man because he was sacked from a corrupted cabinet like the one we have already.

There is a strange rumour in the same context I heard it today that Abu-Zaid was sacked from his position because he refused the suggestion to sell the water of the Nile to the farmers !! Yes you read it right ; the rumour says the government wants the farmers to pay fees for the water they use in the irrigation !! I know one thing for sure if this happens ,there will be a revolution in Egypt !!

Anyhow Abu-Zaid as I said before is not the worst man in the cabinet , there are much more worse ministers than him like for instance the minister of Oil Sameh Fahmi, our Gas waster who shakes hands with the man who killed our POWs in 1967.

Sameh Fahmi is under fire in the Press , Al Youm 7 weekly published and is still publishing a series of reports about the corruption in the oil ministry , very dangerous accusations which should be discussed not only in one newspaper or one website but in all newspapers and in all websites.

Moshira Khateb will be a “Showtime” minister who will appear more on TV and in newspapers in battles with the conservatives mainly the MBs in the parliament ,already the poor woman is considered the musheeraakhatab175[1] feminist man enemy in Egypt now !! The lady has started her ministerial career saying that the long strategy of the ministry will be “Two Children for each family”!!