Egyptian President Spills The Beans: ‘Hunger, A Price Worth Paying For Country’s Progress’

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, President of Egypt, openly declared that hunger and thirst is necessary to achieve the broader goals of progress and success in the country.

In what was consider a bizarre and a ‘widely condemned speech aired from his new administrative capital on Saturday,’ Middle East Eye (MEE) wrote, the Egyptian President, who seeking reelection, asserted that starvation may be needed as not to impede the general success of the country.

Don’t you Egyptians dare say you would rather eat than build and progress. If the price of the nation’s progress and prosperity is to go hungry and thirsty, then let us not eat or drink.

Don’t undermine the cause of our nation and make us the world’s laughing stock. Stand fast and transform the cruel circumstances we are going through into a gift. The harder you stand fast, the sooner it [the economic crises] will pass.