Egyptian MPs and media figures close to the authority blamed the human factor for the recurring train accidents in Egypt, the most recent of which was the Toukh train accident, last Sunday, which killed 23 people and about 140 injured.
In what resembles an organized attack and a coordinated campaign, the statements of the media and parliamentarians were very similar. Development.
Egypt witnessed a passenger train overturning accident, as train cars derailed near Toukh station in Qalyubia Governorate (north), killing 23 people and wounding 139 others. The accident, "and that was a result of their negligence and their lack of observance of laws, decisions, regulations, and regulations."
"Please send us an ambulance" ... Dispensation to save the injured after a train derailed in # Qalyubia pic.twitter.com/eBXhKRaF0D
- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) April 18, 2021
Parliamentary censure
Alaa Abed, head of the Transportation and Communications Committee in the Egyptian Parliament (a former State Security officer), said in statements to the "Last Word" program presented by Lamis Al-Hadidi on Extra News, that there is a development of the railway facility;
But the problem lies in the human factor, which cannot cope with development and the assimilation of modern technology.
Deputy Amira Al-Adly also spoke to the same channel and blamed the human factor for the accident, noting that the great development witnessed by the railway facility did not achieve the necessary safety for millions of Egyptians, reiterating the demand to raise the efficiency of drivers and further development and training of the human element.
Media attack
The situation was not different from the famous journalist Amr Adib, who said on his program "Al-Hekaya" on the channel "MBC Masr" (Saudi Arabia), that there is what he described as a "fatal failure" on the part of the human element in the Toukh train accident, adding Egypt has a human problem, and it is noteworthy that the place where the accident occurred was recently developed, and the authorities made great efforts for this development.
The human element was also the first responsible for another journalist close to the authority, Ahmad Musa, who said on his program "On my Responsibility" on the Sada Al Balad channel, "If the human element did his work in what pleases God, this would not happen."
Social communication is shown
On the other hand, the social media users denounced blaming the human element represented by the small workers without referring to the leaders of the railway facility. Kamel al-Wazir, a former army officer and confidant of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
A number of activists condemned the use of the description of the "human element" with the intention of targeting only small workers, stressing that the minister, leaders and managers are also part of the "human element", and bear the same blame, and some indicated that the one responsible for the failure to develop the alleged "human element" is the leaderships responsible for Rail attachment.
I do not understand the secret of the need for the state diligently, the structure of the railways will not have changed structural from the time of the British occupation that originally established it, manual crossings, a broken control system, carts without protection if you find a chair in the third class and the human factor tells you the reason..the human element died burned down, you system He kills and answers those in you
- Rasha Azab (@RashaPress) April 19, 2021
The first person responsible for train accidents is Sisi,
and the Egyptian people are witnessing a refusal on the air to allocate 10 billion pounds to develop the railways to serve the majority of the people of Egypt at the request of the Minister of Civil Transport and said they were in the bank and he earned more than 10% and
allocated about 300 billion pounds to another train that does not serve the majority of Egypt's people
- Mamdouh Hamza (@Mamdouh_Hamza) April 19, 2021
The origin of Minister Loua El Mouradi is that the human element is always the cause of train accidents
- ISLâM (@ islamhisham74) April 18, 2021
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- Refay El Bitar (@ refay57) April 20, 2021
It is every incident.
We will say the human
element.
If we assume that the human element is not trained or unqualified, whatever the reason, the responsible here is the one who employed him and placed an unqualified person in a place like this in which there are souls of people.
The first incident happened and I knew that in unqualified cadres, I learn from my mistake remained And take out all the unqualified with a debate ****
- Ebrahim Hassan (@ EbrahimElbor3y) April 19, 2021
Kamel Al-Wazir says that the human factor is the cause of these railway accidents,
on the basis that you and Sisi are not human ??
A people if the slippers touch their faces,
the slippers complain of any sin that is being struck. # Renaissance Dam # Military_Khart_Egypt
- AK.
2 đ (@ m__2011x) April 20, 2021
Sky News Arabia - Urgent
The Egyptian Public Prosecutor orders the imprisonment of 23 defendants in the Toukh train accident
Does this mean the responsibility of the human component or the administrative component?
Will this affect the promotion of Team # Kamel_ Minister?
Or does he need to present more achievements? # One_dant_understand https://t.co/J0doyj4tb3
- Ahmed Mokhimer (@ahmedmokhmer) April 20, 2021
Global management but for other projects
In response to the request of a number of specialists to seek assistance from international companies, the Egyptian Minister of Transport, Kamel Al-Wazir, said that he placed at the forefront of the Ministry of Transport's priorities the interest in rehabilitating and training the human element, and assigning a large number of the Ministry's projects to international companies specialized in management and operation for a specific period to provide the highest level Of services, and the transfer of modern expertise to the Egyptian side.
But the trains, whose accidents have been repeated, are not among those projects that will enjoy this luxury, as the minister indicated that a contract with a French company to manage and operate the electric train, which connects the cities of Peace and the tenth of Ramadan with the New Administrative Capital, as well as negotiating with international companies to manage and operate the train The rapid electrician, to be built between Ain Sokhna and Marsa Matrouh, via the New Administrative Capital.
Ashraf Mohamed Raslan, head of the Egyptian Railways Authority, submitted his resignation after the Toukh train overturn last Sunday, and the Egyptian Minister of Transport Kamel Al-Wazir issued, on Tuesday, an order to transfer Raslan Shalabi to the position of advisor to the minister for railway affairs, and the appointment of Mustafa Abdel-Latif Abu Al-Makarem as president The authority, as part of a wide change movement, included the appointment of 10 new leaderships.
The train overturn in Toukh is the third of its kind in less than a month, as a collision between two passenger trains in Sohag Governorate (south) on March 26 last killed 32 people and injured 165 others, while 15 people were injured when two train cars derailed. In Sharkia governorate (north) on April 15th.
In May 2018, the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics announced in a statement that the main cause of train collision accidents is the human factor, with a rate of 78.9%, followed by faults in vehicles and then road conditions.