Mr. Imam Oud Allah, a casual worker from the village of el-Harbit (governorate of Sharkia), criticized Solidarity Minister Ali Al-Moselhi during a conference in Sharkia on Friday. "I've got 13 kids but I can only get 20 loaves of bread a day. I've sent you 30 complaints, but you didn't reply. I'll go on a hunger strike to meet President Mubarak so that he can solve my problem" the man said. "Who had those 13 kids? You or me?" the minister replied. "We keep on having children and telling the minister he's responsible for them. It's not how many kids you have, but whether you get good education, health and homes." The minister ordered the police to take the man away and then called on doctors to raise people's awareness on the gravity of demographic growth. Al-Moselhi made it clear that the most important concept for comprehensive development is human beings, saying they must be provided with education, training and knowledge as well as health, social guarantees, roads, transportation, water, sewage and communications. He called on the citizens to stick to their rights and check up on bakeries and gas cylinder warehouses, adding that those traders are taking advantage of the bad system currently applied. He affirmed this system needed to be changed and said it would be. Ragab el-Sayyed, imam at a mosque in el-Harbit, called on Minister Al-Moselhi in his Friday's sermon to solve the village's problems (potable water, sewage and bread), adding that people get on average less than a loaf of bread a day. "The country's drowning amid water and garbage, while sewage hoses haven't been completed yet after three years of work" he said.
