Dr. Mohamed Hussein, Minister of Finance said that the Government will announce within the next few weeks on the alternative to diesel vouchers to ensure access and support to the citizen, stressing that the cash allowance is the closest option to choose.

 
He added that fuel vouchers will be expired in April 2009 and should therefore provide an alternative to compensate for fellow citizens may be eligible for monetary compensation is the best support and the government is considering options for the form of support and the method of delivery to clients …

 
The minister said … As for our experience of diesel vouchers, what I said previously that we in the Ministry of Finance and we are still with the direct support of any distribution of support for the target groups directly in the form of monetary compensation and not in the form of vouchers or other … We have also that the method of fuel vouchers accompanied by the negative aspects of fraud to sell some of its citizens at prices lower than the actual price and therefore the loss of part of the ad hoc support to …, the government and the evaluation of this method will choose the alternative in the next few weeks … ”

 
He said that monetary compensation would not cover all people there are segments of the development would not be covered by an excellent support, because they did not need it.