Prime minister Ahmed Nazif commented on the garbage problem in Giza and in Cairo “yes it reached to Cairo too” that it will be solved in 2010 , there will be no garbage problem in 2010.
Last time I checked we are in September 2009 and there are still 3 months in 2009 , shall we wait all that time till this problem is solved where as the ministry of health is making us ready for that huge attack of swine flu on the valley of the Nile in the fall ??
We leave the prime minister and go to the governor of Giza who was the man of his word and joined the campaign to clean the streets of the governorate with the Citizens wearing his designer suite , arriving in his Mercedes and distributing flowers on beautiful girls then leaving the citizens cleaning the mess he is responsible for along with the government
Not that only it seems that the governor is trying to hijack a facebook member’s idea who formed a public group calling citizens to collect garbage themselves till this tragedy reaches to an end.
Going back to the cabinet and its smart prime minister , suddenly now the government realized that it can found a national garbage collection company instead of those Italian and Spanish companies !!?? It seems that the Arab contractors company will going to found a subsidiary specialized in garbage collection.
Of course as soon as Mubarak had to interfere , the garbage began to be removed from the high and middle high class neighborhoods , the working class neighborhoods like in Ard El-Lawa are still suffering with tons of garbage around their homes.
FYI when Gamal Mubarak came to Agouza to check his future foundation’s projects in the shanty town area , the area he visited was cleaned and the garbage company was there. I saw them by my eyes while going to my work in the morning. Of course garbage was back again as soon as he left the area.
I have seen today a terrifying report on “On TV” about the hills of garbage in front of the famous “Un Al Masryeen” general hospital !!
Where is WALL.E when you need it ?? May be we do not need WALL.E , more we need to reform the whole process of garbage collection , which is multi-billion industry as I hinted out many times. Recycling can be very profitable to Egypt if we improved the traditional ways we currently use. The government “I do not mean this cabinet, I mean a serious one” can continue building those recycling factories like that factory producing natural fertilizers in Shubra Mint
Photos sources : Wael’s twipics
The Egyptian government (or regime)is "tekhaf" and not "tekhtshy". So, I think these tons of garbage will not be removed unless people show the government something serious; like not paying electricity bills or striking in streets
ReplyDeleteReally the Egyptian people love to litter. They are used to living in filth. Islam is about cleanliness but all one finds in Egypt is people throwing everything in the streets. Even if they pick up the garbage, Cairo will remain filthy and dirty because Cairenes refuse to be clean and pick up after themselves.
ReplyDeleteCleanliness is part of Iman. If only the Egyptians practiced this. Check out the garbage strewn along the railway tracks to Alexandria or to southern Egypt. Disgusting.
Rats and roaches will eventually outnumber the people.
@anonymous, the Egyptian people are not angry for the theft of their basic rights as citizens , do you think that they will get angry because of garbage !!
ReplyDelete@anonymous#2 and Islam did tell us not to insult people like that , please check Egypt from 30 years and how streets were like before speaking now !!