Electricity dealers in Sana'a join the militia, looting the citizen and compounding his suffering
English - Tuesday 15 December 2020 الساعة 06:29 pm
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Thousands of citizens in the capital, Sanaa, complain about the daily suffering they face due to abuse and the high prices of essential services.
Abu Wael, a taxi owner, says, in Sanaa, everyone participates in plundering the citizen: the authority, the lessor, the black market merchants, and even the owners of commercial generators, all of them agreed to plunder us without shame.
Who can stop this messing up? Nobody pays attention to the suffering of the people. Everyone has adapted to the situation, and he has to accept that.
The suffering of people with electricity is a distressing matter in the conduct of life and business.
It is striking in this matter that most of these generators belong to a group of supervisors, which were looted from the yards of foreign companies and some homes after the invasion of the capital, Sana'a, before they turned into a profitable business.
Ammar Abdulaziz, a citizen who works for a daily wage and has 4 boys and a girl, can barely meet their basic daily needs.
He said, “I have a (solar) panel that I've been relying on for years even though it's starting to weaken, but it's hard to replace under the circumstances.
Sometimes my wife needs to wash the accumulated clothes, so we have to deliver a line of electricity from the neighbors, who are cooperating people.
The matter does not stop at the exorbitant bills, but rather not to allow others to compete, and to provide the service well, as it is only a limited group of supervisors who have divided the capital into squares.
Ayoub Ahmed, a university student, said: I live in a room with my colleague in which there are only two bulbs and a mobile charger. We pay at the end of the month 3,000 riyals, of which at least 1,200 are subscriptions.
He added, I think that the matter differs with respect to the prices of a kilo of electricity and the process of subscribing from homes to shops to workshops, because the cost of a kilo is 205 riyals, and if it is necessary to operate a refrigerator or washing machine, the bill will not be less than 12 to 15 thousand riyals in the event of economy in use.
It is worth noting that the Houthi militia imposes a suffocating cordon on citizens through the multiples of taxes, zakat duties, water and electricity bills, sanitation, and telephone bills, at a time when most citizens complain about the deterioration of services in general.
