Al-Asbahi merchants in Sanaa reject a new Houthi levy project
English - Saturday 21 December 2019 الساعة 09:16 am
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The Houthi militia demanded the merchants and owners of commercial shops and small economic activities in the neighborhood of Al-Asbahi an amount of 50 thousand Yemeni riyals, for each commercial activity to purchase and install what it called a comprehensive security control system, which is intended for private cameras and attached to the fronts of some institutions and commercial stores.
Hundreds of small merchants and owners of economic activities rejected the demands of the Houthi militia, and considered them illegal royalties and levies, to steal and loot their money, and they also considered such practices as human rights violations and legal crimes.
Abdulwahid Saif, the owner of a commercial store, said that they have been holding consecutive meetings for half a month to study what he described as the abuses practiced against them by the Houthi militia gangs in the region. “There are more than 10 thousand commercial stores in the region. Al-Houthi plans to collect approximately 500 million riyals.
Confirming their rejection of such levies, and that whoever wants to install a surveillance camera on the front of his commercial store will do so on his own, and he said: "It is no longer unlikely that they are the ones who encourage and harbor thieves, and that they are the cause of the robbery incidents," in a hint of the Houthi militia trying to impose Financial levies under the pretext of implementing the cameras project on all commercial activities in the region.
Since its coup in September 2014, the Houthi militia has been working to raise more money in favor of its destructive obscurantist project, and the mandatory impoverishment policy of large segments of Yemeni society within its areas of control.
