Transitional official: We are partners in the government, not partners in corruption
English - Tuesday 23 March 2021 الساعة 01:31 pm
Aden, NewsYemen:
The head of the Council's External Relations Department, Aidaroos Al-Naqib, considered that the recent protests in southern Yemen came as a reaction to the failure of the Yemeni government to implement what was stated in the Riyadh Agreement.
The captain told the Russian news agency Sputnik, that what happened during the past two weeks of protest marches to the demands of citizens, whether in Aden or Abyan or in Shabwa and Hadramout, all related to the rights of people included in the Riyadh agreement, represented in providing services, paying salaries to government employees, providing security and other necessary demands. , Stressing that those demands "did not implement anything by the government, but rather that the situation has worsened."
Al-Naqeeb denied that the transitional council was the one who went out to protest in the street .. “Rather, the people are the ones who went out to demand their rights, and the council cannot suppress these marches just because it signed the Riyadh Agreement, as these marches represent an indirect demand for the implementation of the agreement.”
He pointed out that “all the media, including the friendly media, focused on storming the Maasheeq Palace,” describing the palace as “not a sacred place nor is it a complex of nuclear secrets, but rather a seat of government, and people went to present their demands to the prime minister and found that the door was open and did not intercept them Someone entered and did not do anything that represented an incursion, as was photographed. These were former military commanders who served the state for decades and live today without salaries. He asked, “How do we owe those who entered the palace and not condemn those who caused it.”
On the transitional partnership in the government and the extent to which it bears part of the responsibility for its failures, the head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Transitional Council said, “We are partners in the government and we are not partners in corruption and starvation of the people, and we will not accept a partnership that will humiliate the people and destroy their dignity, and if the Riyadh Agreement obliges us to remain in the government. But if we were to choose between starving the people or leaving the government, we will surely get out. ”
The official in the Transitional Council hinted at a misappropriation of resources that prevented the improvement of the situation in southern Yemen, saying, “Whoever starves the southern people is the government that has the resources that are managed by Ali Mohsen and Abdo Rabbo Mansour Hadi,” referring to the internationally recognized president and his deputy. Ali Mohsen Saleh al-Ahmar, a leader in the Islah party, the Brotherhood's branch in Yemen.
