01:26 p
Monday 04 July 2022
The Egyptian writer and novelist, Ahdaf Soueif, said that the issue of “Nile floats” has ended, and on Monday morning, the beach will be completely evacuated, as she and others met an official at the Ministry of Justice, who provided them with some facilities, regarding payment, audit, withdrawal and storage mechanisms.
According to previous statements by the writer, she bought that buoy 10 years ago, and through it fulfilled a dream she had, and prepared it to receive her grandchildren and spend her last days there. And “Suef” had previously called on decision-makers in Egypt to stop the removal work.
The writer added, with regard to their presence in the Nile, it is categorically rejected, and that the state’s decision not to have residential buoys in the Nile of Greater Cairo, which is a matter that is not negotiable: “And as they told us, you are hired from me and I do not want you to be saved.” Pointing out that the Cairo Nile will be “commercial or tourist boats.”
And she said in a post on her Facebook page, “The options before us, as we see, were irrigation pull the raft and take it with them and sell it by auction, or we demolish our rafts and dismantle them and sell them for scrap, and this is what our neighbors are doing now, or we agree with irrigation to pay, and they withdraw it. And they store it with them for up to a month, and we see what we will do.”
She pointed out that the facilities and the meeting, which was characterized by clarity, and the attempt to help, would not have taken place without the great interest and sympathy of many in that ordeal, “and it is very touching that the anger was also on the floats themselves and the style and rhythm of life they represent.”
Soueif attached a photo to the post, and said that in the process she lost her home, and this is “our last evening,” but she points out that the family did not lose the buoy: “We have not lost our raft yet. Prefer an intimate and cozy place on the Nile in Cairo.
The engineer, Ayman Anwar, head of the Central Department for the Protection of the Nile River in Greater Cairo, had said, “The removal decision was issued in 2020, and the Projects Authority deals professionally and calmly, in cooperation with the Ministries of Irrigation and Agriculture, we deal with every case of residential buoys, and we look at the needy person with a view that includes the social dimension. But everyone is equal before the law.” Noting that President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi issued a directive not to oppress any of the owners of residential buoys, and directed the study of “very special cases so that no one is wronged,” according to his televised statements, saying, “All buoys in the Nile, numbering 32, will be removed and the law will apply to them, except for the case of or two that need to take into account the social dimension.”
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi had answered a question regarding the condition of the elderly “Ms. Ikhlas” who lives in one of the Nile floats, and who is awaiting a decision to remove, on the sidelines of his meeting with a number of media professionals and journalists on the sidelines of the opening of the express electric train project, saying: “All appreciation to any A work or a humanitarian issue that concerns any Egyptian, especially if it is a woman and an elderly woman, but I want to say something important, we are reorganizing the Egyptian state.”
Al-Sisi added that there are new ways that, when implementation begins, will remove 3,000 or 4,000 housing units.. But when we come to do this, we will compensate people, and I was talking to Dr. Mostafa Madbouly, either they take rewarding compensation or get a housing unit, Or in the place where he is currently, we are creating a state and solving issues, but the woman will not complain and her circumstances will be taken into account.”
Ayman Anwar, head of the Central Administration for the Protection of the Nile River in Greater Cairo, had previously stated that the last renewed license for buoy owners had been since 2011. In a televised interview. Emphasizing the removal of 32 residential floating from the Nile River. Some of the nomadic buoys have already been removed, and the last part is awaiting removal this morning, Monday, according to the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation.
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