President Sisi tells Egyptians to accept that the price of progress and development may be hunger

"Do not let your dream be merely a meal."

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi sparked controversy after telling Egyptians during a conference on Saturday that they should accept hunger and deprivation if that is the cost of progress, prosperity and development.

Egypt's 104 million citizens are already struggling with a cost-of-living crisis with the poverty rate close to 30 percent according to government statistics, with the true figure expected to be higher. Egypt's economy has come under pressure over the past year with the Egyptian pound tumbling and inflation soaring.

[yasminabdmalik]

Making sure people are fed is a basic necessity! You can’t eat skyscrapers. Feed the people and they’ll build the nation. Let them starve and they’ll revolt, like they have done throughout history.

[sjishah]

Hollywood should recruit him for the next oscar's

[basfinnis]

People clapping for this corrupt goblin? 🙄

[junn]

A fat man said to egyptian : you guys better ready for hunger, dont be a glutton

[md.majedulhaquerafin]

Shame on all the peaple who clapped. New Pharaoh of Egypt is Sisi no doubt

[mrwho]

They are already starving. He is just giving them signs of his sinister plans

[akbarali-fhrb]

Dictators are very good with speeches.

[shakhawathossain]

This slave of west is acting really good 😂

[paulstewart]

Eating is a luxury according to this dictator el Sisi.

[elonruok]

He wasted all money in his new capital city meanwhile egyptians starving due to ukraine war😢

[AJaara]

He’s basically telling the people I’m gonna take your money so don’t even think about asking for it

[revivalist]

Misplaced priorities. Feeding the people and improving their standards of living should be number one on the list but not for this tyrant

[zabimalik]

From the way he looks he is definitely not missing any meals he fattens himself and his pockets while his people starve bravo mr president you deserve a noble peace prize for your efforts

[tareqibnziyad]

What a hypocrite!. He lives in a palace and tells Egyptians to starve.

[anreas]

The Egyptian country needs a better leader than now, one with dignity, respect, compared to now, subject to the dollar for fear of losing it,

[ShaytanDharm]

I hope every Egyptian lives a wonderful life 💚

[salamyaya]

You can't progress without eating and drinking.

[okashgagaale]

May ALLAAH have mercy on mursi the real president of Egypt

[ALLAHISENOUGHFORPALASTINE]

West call him democratically elected coup leader ally.

[mansamusatheogjr]

If Umar ibn al-khattab (radi Allahu anhu) could see these rulers now he'd backhand every last one of them and spit on them probably!