Al-Houthi’s abolition of the Ministry of Endowments ... Family control over jobs and systematic plunder of state funds
English - Sunday 21 March 2021 الساعة 08:25 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Special Report:
In continuation of the approach of the Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, in changing the identity of the Yemeni state and razing the public office with entities and institutions that are established outside the constitutional and legal frameworks, the militias issued a new decision to amend the name of the Ministry of Endowments and Guidance to the Ministry of Guidance and Hajj and Umrah Affairs.
The decision is the fourth in a row, issued by the militias in less than three months, and is part of a systematic process not only for the Houthis and controlling the endowments, but also for changing the features and identity of the state institutions emerging in accordance with legitimate constitutional and legal frameworks, in addition to that it comes within the framework of a policy that consecrates the concept of separation and separation of the authorities in The capital, Sanaa, and militia-controlled areas, is making a reality different from the features of the Yemeni state and its institutions that are administered by the internationally recognized legitimate government.
On Saturday, January 30, the Houthi militia announced the establishment of what it called the General Endowment Authority, without specifying what its function, tasks, financial resources and criteria for appointing its officials were, which came to abolish the role of the Ministry of Endowments and Guidance, which falls within the framework of the General People's Congress’s share in the government. Controlled by militias.
Political sources revealed to NewsYemen: about differences between leaders in the Sana'a conference and the Houthi militia regarding the formation of these bodies. While the Houthi militia justifies this with what it calls strengthening factors to confront aggression, conference voices question the legality and legality of establishing these bodies in such circumstances, including "aggression." And what she described as "political division", referring to considering such bodies as (split-separatist) institutions.
A day after the Houthi militia’s decision to establish this unconstitutional body, it issued another decree appointing the leader belonging to the family of the militia leader and called Abdul Majeed Abdul-Rahman Hassan Al-Houthi as head of the Endowments Authority, which reflected the reality of the militia’s systematic policy of transferring the public service, especially the important positions in the institutions that handle Managing the most important state facilities into family positions for the family of militia leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and his relatives, who now control all the most important positions in the various executive institutions in Sana'a.
Political sources in Sanaa explained to NewsYemen: that the leaders of the conference in Sana'a asked the Minister of Endowments and Guidance to which they are affiliated, Najeeb Al-Ajji, to object to the decision to establish the Endowment Authority with the justification that it came outside the constitutional and legal frameworks and away from any discussion within the Council of Ministers, yet Minister Al-Ajji was subject to pressure from the militias that It was only one week that the so-called role of receiving and surrendering took place between him and the Houthi leader appointed as head of the newly created Endowments General Authority, which is a procedure for uncovering the absurdity in which the Houthi militia practices the management of executive institutions, as it was done between the person of the Minister of Endowments and the head of a newly created body alone and not He even has no assistant.
In continuation of the policy of destroying state institutions and the Houthis of the civil service, the militias followed these measures with a decision to appoint five of their leaders to positions that separated them within the framework of the newly created Endowment Authority, before it was followed by the recent decision to amend the name of the Ministry of Endowments and Guidance to the Ministry of Guidance and Hajj and Umrah Affairs, thus completing the process of control over everything It has a relationship with endowments that were managed by the ministry in accordance with the constitutional and legal texts.
The issue of controlling endowments is one of the main features that have emerged in the militia’s tendencies since their coup against state institutions in September 2014 AD. Sana'a and the rest of the areas under its control, before carrying out an inventory of endowment lands and properties, and any disposal of them is prohibited except with the approval of the militia leaders.
Sources in the Ministry of Endowments told NewsYemen: The militias canceling the role of the Ministry of Endowments and replacing them with what was called the General Authority for Endowments reflected the approach of exclusion and the refusal to accept the other, as the role of the conference as a partner in the government under the control of the militias is excluded and marginalized through the creation of entities and institutions to which the powers of the ministries that are administered are transferred By ministers affiliated with the General People's Congress.
added: These measures also came to complete the series of ransoms and plunder that the militias and their leaders have practiced of the endowment lands, funds and revenues for six years, not to mention that they confirmed the militias ’endeavor to establish entities that would grant them the status of a state within the state, which is a consecration of the concepts of fragmentation and separation on the one hand, and on the one hand. Others puts obstacles and obstacles that will represent bombs in front of any settlement agreements to end the war and achieve peace, as it cannot be accepted at that time by the other parties, particularly the legitimate government, political parties, and those who will participate in the negotiations to maintain the conditions produced by the militia’s policies, which in turn will refuse to abandon these measures except in exchange for them. Concessions represented at least in the assimilation of those who are appointed within the framework of state institutions, which will have a negative impact on the future performance of the state and its institutions after the settlement.
The sources indicated this by the Houthi leader appointed to head the newly established General Authority for Endowments, Abdul Majeed Abdul-Rahman Hassan Al-Houthi, who proceeded to exercise his duties with a robbery of more than 20 thousand brick and about 70 buildings that he claimed belonged to the endowments and no one has the right to dispose of them without his directives, in addition to his instructions to transfer all Revenue from endowments to accounts that are subject to his personal supervision.
To clarify the size of the exploitation practiced by the militias by controlling the endowments sector, a report issued by the Endowment Office in the Capital Secretariat only, which is managed by the Houthi militia, reveals that the office’s revenues during the past year 2020 increased to 3 billion and 568 million and 653 thousand and 859 riyals, an increase over the corresponding amount of the year 2019 AD is an amount of one billion and 531 million and 423 thousand and 319 riyals, with an increase of 210%, that is, an increase of two billion and 653 million and 754 thousand and 270 riyals over the year 2018 AD.
The report also indicates that the militias have taken control of 52 properties from the endowment lands with an area of 15 thousand and 10 milk in the directorates of the Municipality, and the iron marking of agricultural land, including an area of 13 thousand brick Ashari, was restored in the Bani Al Harith district and fenced in 61 floors with an area of one thousand and 176 Labnah Ashari. In the districts of Bani Al-Harith, the seventy, peoples and old Sana'a.
According to the report, 33 of the endowment lands, with an area of 10 thousand and 17 Lebnah Ashari, were seized from the endowment lands in the districts of Al-Sabeen, Shu'b, Al-Wehda and Al-Thawra as a precautionary measure to protect them until the issues related to them are settled.
