Around 65 of the disabled people in Cairo Governorate held a strike inside the governorate's building Wednesday after employees refused to implement a previous decision by the governor to give them apartments of flats. "We will not end our strike until the governor's pledge becomes a reality," said Amin Moftah, one of the protesters. He said he and his colleagues felt very sad at the governorate's decision to give flats to some and ignore others. The disabled from Cairo and some other governorates have been protesting outside Parliament and the Cairo Governorate against the negligence of local authorities who refused to give them job opportunities or places of residence. Cairo Governor Abdel Azim Wazir last week pledged to gives the disabled petitioners, a flat each. However, they were told to go away by administrative officials at the governorates. Most of those joining in this sit-in say they are displaced and unable to earn a living, while state institutions and the private sector do not respect a law to specifying five per cent of their vacancies for disabled Egyptians. According to the Central Authority for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS), there are approximately eight million people with disabilities, about 10 per cent of the total population of Egypt. Some 74 per cent of these suffer mental disabilities, seven per cent suffer impaired vision, four per cent impaired hearing and 15 per cent physical disabilities.