Atef Al Ashmouni, secretary-general of Cairo Chamber Said that The Cairo Governorate statistics on
the total number of street vendors in Cairo, which reaches 20,000 vendor, is Inaccurate and that
their number much exceeds this statistics. In light of security mess they are coming from
the governorates of Upper Egypt. This came in response to a statistics recently announced by
the governorate.
Al-Ashmouni added that the short-term plan of Cairo Governorate to solve the crisis of street vendors,
which will take 10 to 12 months would not be positive, saying "the rapid solution should not exceed two
months barrier Especially that placing the vendors in New units does not exceed two thousand ".
The Cairo Chamber's Secretary General called for reconsidering the untapped areas in
the Governorate like Taha Qandil street in Matareya.
The market, which has been held at about 100 million pounds by the Ministry of Awqaf. He pointed out
that it is subject to state ownership and It should facilitate coordination between the various parties to
ensure the elimination of chronic problems facing society and the national economy specially crisis of
street vendors.