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The Crisis of Donkey's Meat and Government
Published in Albawaba on 12 - 06 - 2015

The biggest Egyptian crisis is the huge gap between the desire of achieving an admirable success and the ability of accomplishing it. No one can neither doubt the high spirit of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi or accuse Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahalb of negligence. But the question is whether the efforts of the president and his prime minister would lead to a satisfying result to the people.
I think the president knows very well what he is doing, and the same thing for Mr. Mahlab. We do not have the right to monitor their work. We will just wait for the outcome as long as it takes. The regime's failure will not be only on own his cost this time, but all of us will share it at the end. This explains the state of anxious among the Egyptians.
I know that Sisi was sworn into office to find himself ruling a completely outdated country, and the only way to be treated is to remove it completely, as a prelude to re-build it again. As there is no potential to re-construct a new country, the regime chose the patching policy, which will not lead to the desirable conclusion whatever the well intentions it holds.
Many have sympathized with Mahlab when he visited the National Heart Institute in Giza's Imbaba district. He looked exhausted and shocked for the miserable state of the hospital. He immediately adopted some decisive actions to solve the disaster. Nevertheless, I wonder what he can do for other ruined state facilities.
Some people would say that the government faces a massive heritage of corruption and negligence. This excuse is not acceptable in my opinion, as the government was familiar with the problems of the country. We should account the regime for not having a clear strategy that enables it to rescue Egypt. We can say that the government has adopted a random scheme for solving the country's issues.
Do you need evidence?
Take for example the problem that recently emerged in the Egyptian society as the security authorities found a donkeys' farm in Fayoum governorate, where the farm's owner raise and slaughter donkeys and distribute their meat to a number of butchers for human consumption. This incident raised a state of controversy among the society; however, the government did nothing to settle the crisis. It was totally absent from the scene.
In such crises, the government should make an operations room including representatives from the ministries of health and interior, as well as a spokesperson to inform the people about what is happening on the ground, rather than to leave rumors and speculations to spread in the society.


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