Former MP for the Egyptian Social Democratic Party Ziad El-Eleimi slammed state spending priorities on Tuesday, pointing out the high cost of new Central Security Forces (CSF) uniforms as social services, he claimed, were left to deteriorate.

"While several children were killed in the [November] Assiut train accident due to a lack of ampoules that cost LE2.5 each, more than $275 million was spent on the CSF's new uniforms," El-Eleimi stated on his Facebook page.

In November, a train crashed into a bus that had stalled on a railway crossing in Manfalout village in Egypt's Assiut governorate killing dozens of schoolchildren.

Using the website of the supplier that reportedly sells the uniforms, El-Eleimi estimated each uniform to cost around $612 each, arguing that if the number of CSF soldiers stood at 450,000, then the state would have spent a total of $275,400,000 on uniforms for CSF crowd-control forces.

El-Eleimi went on to dismiss arguments that CSF uniforms were paid for by US aid to Egypt, slamming the priorities forced on Egypt by foreign aid agencies and the Egyptian government's dependence on foreign aid in general.