LETHAL ROCKSLIDE IN EGYPT BLAMED ON GOVERNMENT
Monday, 08 Sep 2008
The Egyptian opposition party has laid the blame for the rockslide that crushed 23 or more people and reduced around 35 homes to rubble on the government. Massive boulders, some of which weighed 70 tonnes or more, broke off the Al-Muqattam hill and crashed into the shantytown of Manshat Na’sr on Cairo’s outskirts. This has led to hundreds being reported missing, over and above the number already known to be dead. Members of the opposition and independent parliamentarians claim that the disaster could have been avoided if this property in Egypt, which is located in a dangerous area, had been evacuated beforehand.
According to Dr. Osama Harb, an Egyptian Shoura Council member and editor of the political magazine A-Siyssa A-Dawliyya, the disaster was due to government incompetence. He said, “There’s apathy and negligence and I believe these are symptoms of the regime’s disability. These sorts of threats aren’t new. The government knew this place was dangerous but didn’t deal with the problem seriously.”
MP Abu Al-‘Izz Al-Hariri, from the A-Tagammu’ party, claims that as much as a third of Egypt property is in a state of disrepair, and in danger of crushing its occupants. He went on to add that up to 20,000 residences in Alexandra and Cairo should be evacuated before they collapse. The government states that evacuation notices have been issued, but residents keep rejecting them, to which Al-Hariri replied that the reason for this is that there is no other housing offered, and these people cannot afford to even rent another Egypt property, let alone buy one.
The affected neighbourhood is used as accommodation in Egypt for people who come to Cairo in search of employment and are forced to live in this impoverished area because of the high cost of renting or buying a property in Egypt.
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