Sisi: Egypt needs EGP 70tn to achieve development

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi said Thursday 5/1/2023 that Egypt needs some 70 trillion pounds to be able to implement projects hoped to achieve its development.

 

Speaking during a ceremony to inaugurate a number of development ventures in the city of Sohag, Sisi told the gathering that Upper Egypt has never been marginalized or forgotten, underlining attempts to solve problems in an unorthodox way.

 

Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli reviewed just a part of what had been accomplished outside the “Decent Life” initiative, Sisi made it clear. Excluding “Decent Life”, the cost could reach a total of seven trillion pounds, the president said, believing it is a very modest sum given the dream Egypt is seeking to fulfill.

 

“This is our current reality, because the state is not and has not been capable,” Sisi said, adding “with such unfavorable circumstances, the country could only dream, think and act.”

Sisi put the total value of development achieved in Sohag so far at 102 billion pounds. He wondered about what upgrading the rest of the governorates would cost.