Mohamed Seif Eldin-Cairo
The Egyptian army has uncovered information about the number and nature of the economic projects it supervises, and the number of employees working in it. This has caused the ire of many bloggers and social media activists.
The military spokesman for the Egyptian armed forces, Colonel Arkan Harb Tamer Rifai, said that the Egyptian army "oversees about 2,300 projects, employing five million civil servants in all disciplines."
Al-Rifai gave some examples of the projects supervised by the army and the number of employees therein. He also stressed the keenness of the armed forces on transparency in dealing with public opinion on all projects he supervises.
Rifai denied recent reports that the armed forces had a chain of pharmacies in Egypt.
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Although the armed forces deny having links to a 19011 chain of pharmacies, they are not yet known.
His comments, which revealed the data during a telephone conversation yesterday evening with the program "story" presented by the media close to the regime Amr Adib on the channel "MBC Egypt" satellite.
Military Spokesman: 5 million civilians working in projects supervised by the army ..... means about 20% of the Egyptian workforce .. Is this an indicator of the size of the economic activity of the army in the Egyptian economy? ... God knows https: // t. co / Mn7XLKLlmA - Gamal M. Siam (@GMSBaghdadi) September 2, 2019 |
The information revealed by Rifai irritated a number of activists on social networking sites, who saw it as an infiltration of the Egyptian army, amid mounting accusations against him to dominate many parts of the country's economy.
Since the overthrow of the late President Mohamed Morsi in the summer of 2013, the role of the military in Egyptian economic life has grown rapidly.
Estimates vary on the size of the military's role in the local economy, where some media estimates indicate that it represents 50%, but Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi confirms that it does not exceed 3%.