MP Mohammad Abdel Alim has confirmed that corruption exceeded all imagination in Kafr El-Sheikh and should be curbed immediately. He filed an interpellation to the People's Assembly (Parliament) Speaker Ahmed Fathi Sorour warning against delay in saving more than 40,000 acres being usurped under the nose of the current government. Sorour referred the interpellation to the Local Administration Committee under the title "important and urgent".
Abdel Alim, member of Wafd Party, called on the Prime Minister personally and the ministers of agriculture, local development, and Wakfs (religious endowment) to intervene and distribute these plots of land among the low-income categories in the villages of Motobas, Fouh, Balteem and al-Hamoul so that they can plant them instead of taking the path of death through illegal immigration.
Abdel Alim stressed that the government has to bring the incumbent or former officials who usurped plots of land in Motobas in the south of the international road to book, even if some of them are relatives of prime ministers, ministers and major generals. The MP threatened to give names at a press conference to protect the public fund and property of the Egyptian people.
He also called for entrusting the Administrative Control Body with preparing a file on manipulation in these plots of land in the south and north of the international road and Lake Burullus. The number of the state-owned acres in this area decreased to 85,000 acres from 185,000 acres after the senior officials usurped them.
The interpellation revealed that gangs are now professional in usurping plots of land although the PA discussions managed to get 5,000 acres back from the Ministry of Irrigation when it tried to annex these plots to it and prevented the incumbent minister from intervention. The PA discussions also prevented some well-connected people from establishing associations to usurp the state-owned land and thwarted auctions for selling such plots of land.
