Madbouly: “70% of the illegal construction took place in the mid-1980s.”

Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly said today, Wednesday, that the random construction started a long time ago, and was the result of high population inflation and the impossibility of going to build new houses, so residents went to build without planning. state, and many of those buildings were on farmland.

And he continued, in the press conference he held on Wednesday, on the random construction in the state and the reconciliation law in building violations, that the economic and political conditions previously made the state turn a blind eye to those actions of citizens, adding: “It has become a culture that this random building has become a culture.” .

He continued: “Unplanned construction equals 50% of the urban mass of all Egyptian villages, in the mid-1980s, as sometimes 70% of the construction incident.

The Prime Minister indicated that the Building Violations Act in force since 2008 did not provide for reconciliation and, following the increase in building violations, the Reconciliation Act was issued to facilitate citizens and stop the bleeding of violations.

“Madbouly” said Egypt lost a lot of agricultural land due to illegal and random construction. “It was necessary to take a decisive position to face the phenomenon of random construction in light of the achievements of the state. Random construction has spread in cities more recently than in the countryside,” he said.

He pointed out that the villages in Egypt, which were supposed to be small residential complexes, were obtained through an unplanned random extension.

“The amount of land that has been lost due to random construction has reached 90,000 feddans, and this means losing a source of food, losing many job opportunities, and it is necessary to compensate for this loss,” said the prime minister at a press conference.

He noted that “the scale of the random and unplanned expansion today represents a very severe pressure on the Egyptian state.”

The prime minister also stated that the state is expanding and establishing a new generation of new cities to accommodate the population increase, and went on to say: “We have added 160,000 feddans to the urban space to accommodate the population increase.”

“Madbouly” said £ 300 billion is needed to provide services with increased random growth in villages and to provide sanitation.