Egyptian Chronicles: Still It was An Idea After All

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Still It was An Idea After All

At last the minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza who is responsible officially for the Giza zoo has spoken regarding the news leaked to the press yesterday. The minister commented on the plan of transferring the Giza Zoo to 6th October saying that it was just an idea the government thought of for while yet sooner that they found it unsuitable and thus they did not do it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The government thought of transferring the Zoo to 6th October and turning the Zoo land in Giza to a garden by the end 2010 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For some reason they could not do the idea and decided to cancel it !! There is no need to panic as the Giza Zoo will remain in its place and even the ministry is adopting a program to revive in order to restore its status internationally.

This statement holds good news and bad news. The good news is that the Giza Zoo will remain in its place for the time being thank God where as the bad news is that the government gave thought for real to transfer the Zoo to 6th October !! They think about it , they wanted too and for some reason which none other than the fear of the public anger.

Again I believe this news leak of yesterday was just an attempt to measure the public reaction regarding this important decision. In less 24 hours there were violent reactions refusing the decision from activists like Mamdouh Hamza who attacked the government accusing them of selling our history.

The fact that the government thought about transferring the Zoo freaks me out yet I hope it realizes now that the Egyptian people refuses this idea.

Already even those who Egyptians who are not involved in politics have left refusing comments to this idea as the minister has described all over the internet yesterday and today like :

When they will sell the pyramids and Sphinx !!
To Which NDP businessman they sell the Giza Zoo land to !!??
That 6th of October Zoo will be for the rich only.

I must hint out that the Israeli Embassy was accused again to be behind that unachieved decision as the rumor says that Cohen ; the Israeli Ambassador has proposed to buy the Zoo land for a sum determined by the Egyptian government !!

Anyhow this is not the end , again it seems that there are plots against the Zoo and our history and we must be very careful regarding these plots.