A fake Houthi fuel crisis ... and citizens: Al-Houthi provides his followers with oil and deprives the citizen of it
English - Wednesday 14 October 2020 الساعة 05:50 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Jalal Muhammad:
The contrived fuel crisis, according to what a large number of citizens reported to "Newsyemen", has led to a crazy increase in all life requirements, especially food and vegetables, which has made it difficult for the citizen to secure the minimum of them.
The fuel crisis is not new, as the economic, health and oil crises have become a prominent feature of the ruling authorities in Yemen, which has been mired in daily fighting since 2014, to classify this poor country as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, according to the United Nations.
“The Houthis are opening some petrol stations for filling for their followers, while the rest of the citizens are prevented from obtaining it.” With this phrase, Fahd Al-Salahi began his speech to NewsYemen, stressing that it is funny that the Sana'a government is talking about a crisis and blockade while the black market is frighteningly widespread.
He added, "My brother, everyone steals this people and feeds on their suffering, how can there be a crisis, and the black market is all over the streets, this siege only exists for the official oil stations but not the smugglers!."
As for Abu Abdulrahman, he says: “I wait in line for a whole week to get 30 liters of the price of 5900 for the 20 liters, and during the week I spend more than 30 thousand between eating, drinking and qat while I am waiting for my turn in the official station.
They push you to resort to the black market. They - the Houthis - are creating a crisis in oil derivatives in order to revitalize the black market that their leaders and supervisors oversee. "
Adding: "Ten days ago, there were stations in Al-Huthili and in Arhab, selling it from 9500 - 10,000 for 20-liters, and it is abundantly available even if you want a thousand liters, but if you want to buy from the official stations, you have to wait in line and in the end it is not guaranteed to get 30 liters.
He stressed that he is “fully confident that some people get more than thirty liters if they have mediation, only one call is enough to fully fill the car tank!
When we asked him who was behind this matter, he said: “Everyone, without exception, the legitimacy does not deserve to be a government, and the Houthis do not care about the people.
Everyone doubles the suffering of the people, and the people are in a deplorable condition.
Citizen Ibrahim Al-Shayani mocks: "Glory be to the one who besieged oil at a price of 5900 and opened the way for oil at a price of 15,000 riyals.
I swear that everyone is trying to plunder what he can during this period, because it is a golden period for theft and merchants of wars and tragedies.
Al-Shayani affirmed that "the Houthis provide their followers and supervisors with 20 liters of oil per day and more, on a daily basis under the pretext of mobilization, support, and supplies."
He added, "I have a friend and his cousin a supervisor. I swear to God that I never saw him in line with us, but every day I see him driving his eight-cylinder car.”
During the current week, the Yemeni Oil Company in Sana'a announced the reduction of the number of shift stations and that the stock it had was about to run out, and as soon as the company announced this news, the prices of petroleum of 20 liters on the black market rose from 13 thousand to 18 thousand riyals.
Yemenis generally agree that Houthi leaders and merchants are the ones who stand behind fabricating crises in the various requirements of life, so that they can monopolize the market for oil derivatives and dispose of Iranian fuel provided as financial support to the militia at the prices imposed by the group, with the absence of competitors and ending the role of the Yemeni Oil Company - a government company -.
The legitimate Yemeni government has always accused the militias of "fabricating a fuel crisis in the areas under its control in order to strengthen the black market that it manages and uses to enrich its leaders and finance its military and political activities."
