Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Egyptian businessman Naguib Sawiris has entered a dispute with Egyptian media professionals, after he commented on a false and satirical image of a number of Egyptian media professionals ringing the drums, referring to the word “drums” used by Egyptians to accuse media professionals of exaggerating support and approval of the system.
And one of the tweeters posted a photo of people playing drums, and instead of their heads were images of the media, Amr Adeeb, Ahmed Moussa, Mustafa Bakri, Tamer Amin, Moataz Billah Abdel Fattah and Muhammad Al-Baz, and Sawiris commented on the photo, saying, “One minus.”
Sawiris’ comment angered some of the media presenters in the fake photo, and Amr Adeeb responded to Sawiris, saying colloquially, “We didn’t make as much from the battery as you made from your battery, Naguib. Our battery had votes, but your battery had rooks and dollars. What a loss and amazement.”
In turn, Ahmed Musa said: “Shame on you, Najib. We are defending a homeland and a people. We will not forget your role and your channel in 2011, which you used to target the armed forces, the police and the judiciary, even if you are more than wealth during the late president Mubarak’s era, this is first and foremost Najib’s interest… Shame on you, Naguib… and what is hidden is greater.
Sawiris responded to Moussa, saying, “It is an honor for me to have been in the January 25 revolution, and it will remain a defining point in Egypt’s history, even if it was stolen … because of his youth’s reluctance from politics and from its evils”.
For his part, the journalist Mohamed El-Baz declared, via his Facebook account, that “Sawiris is a man who suffers from a great emptiness… and because he suffers from a emptiness, you meet him from time to time as he practices a form of insignificance,” as he said.
At the same time, but without naming names, Mustafa Bakri said on his Twitter account: “Whoever smuggled Egypt’s money abroad, who offended our great army, who considered Egypt an apartment for him furnished and a looter of wealth, who has bribed and bribed, who could not tell how his wealth exceeded hundreds of billions, even though he only owned £5 million in the nineties, has no right to question the credibility of those who defend the country.
