I envy the Swedes, Finns, and Swiss. It’s a pity Nazif’s “e-government” can’t follow suit. Anyways, I shouldn’t be ambitious. The NDP can’t even run trains.
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Student confronts Nazif about corruption
Al-Masry Al-Youm reports on another student confronting Nazif, Bilal-style:
Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif not only answers to the president, parliament and journalists, but now faces the frustrations of students. During a recent visit to Port Said, Abdallah Ahmad Bazazo confronted Nazif.
“I am feeling the corruption everywhere,” Bazazo said. “I feel like I am inhaling it and the government doesn’t move a finger.”
“Every day I get more estranged, feeling like I am not a citizen. Why do the citizens lose their pride inside the country and gain it outside? Did you cries when the ferry drowned or when the soldiers on the border die?”
As soon as the student finished talking, the whole crowd started applauding for more than five minutes. This was just one of a series of hot confrontations between university students and the prime minister during a leadership management camp. Most of the questions were about corruption, selling the national companies, importing gas to Israel, relations with Ethiopia, Iran and America, high prices and unemployment.
Doctors Without Rights to protest ministry’s deception
Sarah Carr reports for the Daily News Egypt:
Rights group Doctors Without Rights (DWR) are planning to protest what they describe as the Health Ministry’s “deception.”
The group is staging a protest outside the Doctors’ Syndicate a day before Doctors’ Day on March 18, where Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif and Minister of Health Hatem Al-Gabaly will be honored during the syndicate’s celebrations.
In the statement announcing the protest, DWR denounce “the honoring of those responsible for doctors’ suffering” and call for an end to “the deception of doctors with make-believe incentive payments.”
Earlier this week independent daily Al-Dostour reported that during a meeting with Doctors’ Syndicate head Hamdy El-Sayyed, Nazif announced that incentive payments due to be received by specialists and consultants in June will not be paid because of “insufficient funds as a result of the global economic crisis.”
Nazif is reported to have said that the funds necessary to grant the incentive payments will not be available for another two years.