Sporadic sources working in the field of contracting in Egypt, and related to work with the Engineering Authority of the Armed Forces; they received promises and assurances to receive their arrears before the end of this year.
According to Al-Jazeera correspondent Abdul Karim Salim, they linked the receipt of these promises and the huge echo caused by the videos of the contractor and actor Mohamed Ali, which recently circulated;
In the same context, Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli paid the dues of contractors responsible for construction work in Samalout Hospital in Minya Governorate (south of Cairo), as he went through a number of service projects in the governorate.
The contractor and actor Mohamed Ali broadcast video footage in which he accused President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a number of senior military leaders of wasting billions of pounds on projects without study or economic feasibility, as well as millions more on the personal interests of him and his family.
A contractor who worked for the Authority's projects for many years said that he stopped working for some two years, after the accumulation of his dues, but "no one forced me to resume work. What they have happened in recent years. "
Art-related activists said another acting contractor also received calls for satisfaction.
Activists also talked about the use of festivals and art competitions to satisfy actors working in the contracting with the army, by giving them technical awards.