The Prime Minister: The number of requests that have been made to reconcile with building violations is not enough

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said that the Building Violations Reconciliation Act stipulated that citizens submit to reconciliation within a 6-month period to submit reconciliation requests, indicating that the number of requests that were submitted did not it was sufficient and did not match the size of the violations.

He continued: “After the increase in building infractions, the Reconciliation Law was enacted to facilitate citizens and stop the bleeding of infractions, the government addressed the obstacles that the law faced, and No. 1 was reformed for the year 2020 to amend and simplify reconciliation procedures, explaining that the law facilitated and opened the way for all infractions ”.

This came during a press conference held by the Prime Minister on Wednesday on the random construction of the state and the reconciliation law on building violations.

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.