Egypt’s Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli said the Egyptian State believes that achieving integrity and transparency, and combating corruption are not only means to protect the country’s capabilities and preserve development gains, but are also “goals we must strive to achieve as long as we aspire to a just homeland in which rights and freedoms are respected, and dignity is preserved”.
Madbouli made the remarks yesterday during the inauguration of the third phase of the Egyptian National Anti-Corruption Strategy (2023-2030), launched under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah El Sisi.
He pointed out that the impacts of corruption are not confined to economic damage, but extend to social and humanitarian effects.
The session was attended by Senate Speaker Abdel Wahab Abdel Razeq, Chairman of the Administrative Control Authority (ACA) Amr Adel, in addition to a host of ministers, senior state officials, university presidents and ambassadors.
Participants in the third stage of a national strategy to combat corruption 2023-2030 have praised the strategy’s significant role on promoting the values of transparency and fairness.
Khalid Saeed, undersecretary of the Administrative Control Authority, said the third phase of the strategy aims at focusing on all means, programmes and mechanisms to combat corruption with the participation of all categories of the society and in co-operation with local, regional and international bodies concerned.
For his part, President of the Central Agency for Organisation and Administration Saleh el-Sheikh said the strategy helps establish the values of transparency and fairness.
Speaking during the same event, Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhi stressed that the state works effectively on combating corruption under the directives of the political leadership.
For her part, Cristina Albertin, Regional Representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (UNODC ROMENA), lauded great efforts exerted by the Administrative Control Authority on combating corruption, voicing readiness for supporting Egypt to implement the new strategy.
ACA Chairman Amr Adel underlined continued support of President Sisi for independence of and activation of monitoring institutions.
He said the state spent over LE30 billion to facilitate governance, monitoring and review works.
He added that over LE1 billion was allocated to the giant national project of IT infrastructure, citing the establishment of the Central Agency for Information Technology.
He noted that the ACA signed 25 memos with corresponding bodies and universities specialised in the ACA’s work domains.
He also referred to the launch of a programme for granting MA and PhD degrees as the first specialised certificate in this domain.
