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 on Thursday 15/12/2022 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 effects of corruption are not confined to the material and 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 Amr Adel, in addition to a host of ministers, senior state officials, university presidents and ambassadors.
Egypt has been keen to develop ambitious policies to deal with corruption, and state institutions were also keen to coordinate among themselves with a view to developing and implementing those policies, Madbouli said.
He added that Egypt launched its first National Anti-Corruption Strategy (2014-2018), which has been incorporated by the United Nations Secretariat as one of the successful practices of the Arab Republic of Egypt in the field of preventing and combating corruption. It was followed by the second phase (2019-2022).
Today witnesses the third phase of the strategy starting from 2023 through the end of 2030, the premier added.
Since Egypt launched its first anti-corruption strategy on International Anti-Corruption Day, all units of the state’s administrative apparatus have joined forces with law enforcement agencies to revitalize the executive measures of the strategy, he noted.
Source: State Information Service Egypt
