We don't mind if we have to be moved, but move us somewhere where we can make a living. Nobody in Mit Oqba knows exactly what is to happen to them, though rumours are rife, something that serves only to heighten the unsettled atmosphere. Nehmedou Ahmed Abdel-Latif, a widow with one child who pays LE9 a month for a rented room where she lives with her mother, wonders what will happen to her when the building is pulled down. It won't even pay for a small room. You need enormous amounts just for key money.
Most people are prepared to move, albeit grudgingly, if only they receive adequate compensation.
What they do not want is to end up sidelined or ignored in the middle of the celebrations. Meanwhile the Ministry of Housing insists that all those affected by the construction would be compensated. This is a project for the public good. It is necessary to take a knife to the wound to clean it, it has to be done.