New Houthi royalties threaten Sanaa with an imminent health and environmental disaster
English - Monday 13 June 2022 الساعة 10:24 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, Jalal Muhammad:
New royalties imposed by the terrorist Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, threaten Sanaa with an imminent health and environmental disaster.
In the context of its war, which targets the pockets of citizens and their strength in various ways and endless methods and under several names, most notably “the war effort”, “supporting the families of the martyrs”, “improvement” ... and other tricks, local sources revealed that the Houthi militias imposed royalties on Sewage suction from the streets.
Since their takeover of the capital, Sanaa, and some cities in late September 2014, the Houthis have created outlets at the entrances to those cities to collect royalties, taxes and customs without obtaining an official document to do so.
According to the sources, a week ago, the Houthi militia began imposing royalties on every rented shop with a bathroom. Where the shop owners confirmed that the Municipality of Amanat Al Asimah and the Office of Water and Sanitation have formed committees that went down to every shop that has a bathroom, obligating them to pay an amount of 6 thousand riyals annually as "sewage fees."
One of the owners asked in his interview with NewsYemen: How do they impose these sums on each shop, while we pay the water bill for subscription services and sanitation?
He adds: "I have 5 water meters for this building, and I pay monthly subscriptions, and now they want a subscription for each shop, so can we as landlords bear it and increase the shop rents, or will it be borne by the tenant who suffers from poor purchasing activity and the high cost of living, including rents?"
This week, most of Sanaa's streets were flooded with sewage, after the owners of sewage suction vehicles went on strike due to the imposition of additional royalties amounting to ten thousand riyals for each suction operation.
He confirmed to Newsymen, one of the owners of the suction carts, that he was suctioning sewage for 20,000 riyals during the last period and paid 3,000 royalties to the Houthis, and the rest went to diesel and workers' wages, leaving him with only 4,000 riyals, and despite that, the citizen was shouting because the suction amounted to twenty thousand .
He added, "Now, how will the situation be, and the suction will exceed the amount of 30,000 riyals, because the Houthi will pursue people even in their excrement, a vengeful group that only remains the air we breathe without taxes and royalties."
The sources indicated that the continuation of the strike by the owners of the suction outlets, will lead to an imminent health and environmental disaster, coinciding with forecasts of rain in a number of governorates, including Sanaa.
From time to time, the Houthi militia doubles its taxes on various sectors, in light of the interruption of salaries, the rise in all goods and services, despite the stability of currency exchange rates, and the entry of oil derivatives ships through the port of Hodeidah, which is under the control of the militias.
