Houthi militias spark a household gas crisis in Sanaa
English - Monday 01 June 2020 الساعة 11:54 am
Sanaa, Newsyemen l, private :
The household gas crisis in the capital, Sana'a, and the Houthi militia-controlled areas , reappeared after the end of Ramadan and the end of the Eid Al-Fitr holiday.
Local sources in the capital, Sanaa, said: The domestic gas crisis has returned again in the capital, where the black market began to appear in which the 20-liter gas cylinder is sold for more than 8 thousand riyals, while gas selling stations stopped filling gas cylinders for citizens and limited their work to selling gas to owners of cars, buses and transport vehicles that operate on gas.
The Houthi militia started the last month of Ramadan by approving a price dose, raising the price of domestic gas sold at the stations to 6700 riyals, and allowing the stations to sell it to citizens on the pretext of covering the deficit, which is exacerbated by the increasing consumption of gas in the month of Ramadan, which forced most of the capital's residents to accept this situation and fill their cylinders in the gas stations at the imposed price, especially since the Houthi militia has intentionally reduced the quantities of gas it sells to citizens through the district leaders, forcing them to fill the cylinders from the stations at the price imposed by the militias.
Local sources added that the district leaders and intermediate leaders in the Houthi militia complained to the higher leaders that the continued sale of gas stations to citizens even at high prices will affect the ability of the district leaders to use the process of distributing domestic gas to citizens as a means to impose what the militias want in terms of mobilizing fighters and attending courses of the sectarianism organized by the militias, which led the leaders of the Houthi militia to stop selling domestic gas to citizens through the stations and return to the policy of selling it through the district leaders which caused the emergence of the domestic gas crisis again and the emergence of a black market run by senior leaders in the Houthi militias.
