Governor of Egypt’s Behaira governorate Nadia Abdou stressed that her country’s political leadership gives priority to the Egyptian woman, saying that her appointment to be the first female governor in Egypt and the Arab world reflects President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi’s appreciation to the woman’s role in the Egyptian community.

She added, in an interview with “Arabs Today”, “The governmental keenness to improve the women position is a major evidence that the country on its way to achieve development and prosperity. The current success the country achieves pushes the foreign powers work to challenge it.”

She underlined the value of honest work, saying it leads the person, whether man or woman, to take the major position in his country. She stressed that her governorate works to cooperate with the Social Fund to build new schools and youth centers in addition to paving the rural roads.

She added that they also cooperate with the major companies to establish garbage recycling factories and to support microenterprises for female breadwinners. She added that they also promoted a number of women to take the leading positions in the governorate, saying that they depended on only the standard of efficiency in their choices.

She revealed that she has ambitious plan to complete the national projects in the governorate and to resolve the pending issues, including the drinking water crisis and the lack of services in the remote villages. She added that the president gave orders to achieve the development projects as soon as possible.

She added, “I aspire to establish a logistic in the coastal city of Edco and a plant for the paper production in Rashid.” She stressed that she does not care of the campaigns aiming to raise skepticism over her ability as a woman to lead the governorate, saying that she focuses on her work. She stressed, “I will follow the projects and all companies should meet the deadlines to deliver their projects.”

She added that the governorate will provide thousands of job opportunities to resolve the unemployment crisis and to end the illegal immigration phenomenon. She refuted the Salafist claims over the illegality of the decision to appoint a woman in such a position, saying that such claims are a part of the conspiracy against the country.

She praised Azhar’s scholars and other intellectuals who expressed their refusal to such claims, saying that those people who promote such ideas smear the image of the country before the world.