The kidnapping of a professor and the arrest of lawyers in Taiz..Brotherhood terrorism to protect the corruption of "Al-Wasabi"
English - Thursday 15 July 2021 الساعة 08:40 am
Taiz, NewsYemen, special:
An official complaint revealed that one of the heads of private universities in Taiz was kidnapped by an armed gang in front of the Public Funds Prosecution building.
The complaint submitted by the President of Al-Ata University, Professor Muhammad Mahyoub Al-Braihi, to the head of the Taiz Prosecution, in which he indicated that he was kidnapped by an armed gang led by an employee of a private university, last Thursday, and miraculously escaped from it.
The incident comes weeks after the scandal raised by Al-Buraihi against the Minister of Higher Education Khaled Al-Wasabi, one of the leaders of the Brotherhood, and related to the forgery of a doctorate in the field of pharmacy, through social media and in his interviews with the media.
Al-Braihi, who is the head of the Yemeni Pharmaceutical Society, revealed that the Ministry of Higher Education in Aden approved a doctorate in pharmacy issued by the University of Science and Technology (affiliated with the Brotherhood) in Sana’a in 2018, despite the absence of an approved program in Yemen to grant doctorate degrees in this field, whether in private or public universities. .
He explained that programs for granting doctorate degrees in the medical and scientific fields are not available in Yemen, due to the difficulty of providing the necessary conditions for opening a doctoral department, which requires the university to have at least 5 doctors with the rank of "professor" in the department, which is not currently available in any university.
Al-Buraihi revealed that the Ministry of Higher Education in Sanaa, which is under Houthi control, refused to baptize this certificate because there are no doctoral degree programs in the field of pharmacy, to be baptized by the Ministry of Legitimacy in Aden.
What is remarkable about what al-Burahi raised is his revelation that the Brotherhood minister had tried to impose the holder of the forged certificate as head of the pharmacy department at Taiz State University, a modern department that was recently opened after al-Buraihi worked to establish it under the authority of the university president.
Al-Buraihi said that what the minister and the ministry committed is a great betrayal of the country that requires investigation, pointing out that the pharmacy specialization is not an easy matter, but rather is linked to people's lives and the pharmaceutical industry and cannot be tampered with.
The Brotherhood’s response to this scandal came in the form of revenge, whereby the minister issued a decision to cancel the permit granted by the ministry to the private Al-Ataa College in Taiz, which is headed by Al-Buraihi, under the allegations of “violating the regulations, conditions and standards for establishing private community colleges.”
The decision included closing the college for the current academic year 2021-2022 AD, and prohibiting the registration and acceptance of students and the practice of the educational process "until the construction procedures are completed and the building is prepared", threatening to stop the license permanently.
The minister was unable to "complete the construction procedures and prepare the building", revealing the intentions of revenge against what Al-Burahi had raised, as most universities and private colleges in Taiz do not own private buildings and conform to the requirements of the law.
It is noteworthy that Al-Buraihi was kidnapped one day after it was revealed that two lawyers in Taiz intelligence had been detained for more than a week against the background of a report from the Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Khaled Al-Wasabi, accusing her of taking remote pictures of the new “flatta” in the Al-Hasab neighborhood of Taiz city.
Media reports and activists recently spoke of suspicions of corruption in the distribution of scholarships for this year by the Ministry of Higher Education in Aden, and accusations of selling some of them by the leadership of the ministry for huge sums of money.
