Adib in the hospital for exhaustion; Recycling initiative gets lauded; Planning Minister discusses ACA’s bribery case; Ozymandias unearthed
Talking heads last night all wished Kol Youm’s Amr Adib well, as he was admitted to the hospital yesterday for exhaustion. Hona Al Asema’s Lamees El Hadidy canceled her show on Saturday to be with him, but she called in to Akher El Nahar to tell host Gaber Al Armooty that Adib was doing well (watch, runtime: 10:28). We wish them both well.
On Mehwar’s 90 Minutes, Moataz El Demerdash spoke to Deputy Planning Minister Saleh El Sheikh about the Administrative Control Authority (Egypt’s top anti-corruption watchdog) arresting the ministry’s head of purchasing in connection with an alleged kickback. El Shiekh said an investigation into other ministry contracts is ongoing (watch, runtime 7:04). (For more on the corruption case, hit up Youm7 here and here.)
On Masaa DMC, MP Atef Makhaleef was highly critical of the “poor excavation methods” used to unearth the statue (possibly of Ramses II) in Mattariya, Cairo (more on that in Egypt in the News). The MP wants the antiquities minister to resign (watch, runtime 3:26), but the head of the Egyptian-German excavation party confirms the statue was found broken and was not damaged during its extraction from the site (watch, runtime 7: 55).
The host then moved on to cover the delivery of 48 residential units in Ismailia to Coptic families displaced from their North Sinai homes by Daesh terrorists and spoke to Ismailia Governor Yassin Taher, who confirmed that the families have also received health insurance cards for free medical treatment in their host city (watch, runtime 6:31).
Meanwhile on Al Hayah Al Youm, Lobna El Assal was pleased to report that Egypt is finally jumping on the garbage recycling bandwagon. The host spoke to Cairo Governor Atef Abdel Hameed about an initiative he launched on Saturday to buy trash for recycling from citizens. The first two outlets are in Heliopolis and should pop up around the rest of Cairo by the end of 2018, the governor said (watch, runtime: 2: 41).