The stranded in India ..a tragedy from which officials and embassy brokers earn
English - Wednesday 28 July 2021 الساعة 11:14 am
Aden, NewsYemen:
Yemeni "Fatima" stood puzzled with her child in Aurangabad, India, after she was informed by her country's embassy there that her trip to Aden had been postponed for the third time. What she has of money seems to be out of her, and the house she was renting is about to be handed over and she has sold its contents when she was preparing to return to her original country.
"Fatima", the pseudonym of a young Yemeni academic stranded in India and who has been greatly affected by the corruption of her country's embassy and the brokers affiliated with it, is living in complex conditions in a country ravaged by the Corona virus and the black fungus and experiencing a double health crisis that required hundreds of Yemenis residing there to make the decision to return to their country after the situation worsened.
On the tenth of this July, Fatima had booked two seats for her and her child on the Yemeni Airlines, but she was informed that the flight was unable to accommodate more passengers, her reservation was carried over to the 17th of the same month and faced the same problem, so the reservation was moved again to the date July 24th.
The bewildered Yemeni woman, with her residency nearing the end of next August, is still stuck in India with about 530 Yemenis, while embassy officials refuse even to respond to her complaints, indifferent to the complicated conditions she lives with her child there.
A number of stranded people in India spoke to "Newsmen", some of whom are sick and families; They stressed that embassy officials, led by the Yemeni Consul in Mumbai Yahya Gober and his partner, Moaz al-Jaboubi, are running a corruption network to blackmail the stranded and take the crisis they are experiencing as an opportunity to gain and profit.
One of the stranded, preferring not to be named so as not to be harassed, said that the Yemeni Consul in Mumbai Yahya Guber is leading a team of brokers and bribery holders to deport the stranded based on requirements that require the stranded to pay the bribe to export their names to the lists of passengers on the Yemeni Airlines network.
The source warned that there was a major tampering of names and reservations, and dozens of people stranded in other stranded seats were deported, who were excluded from travel because they did not agree to pay bribes to officials, or rather their financial circumstances did not allow them to pay.
The source stated that the embassy transferred a group of stranded people on board four Yemenia flights to the city of Aden during varying days, and consulate officials told the stranded that priority for travel is for patients, but mediation and bribery paid kept hundreds of patients in India and many were deported outside the framework of the mentioned priorities.
Hundreds of stranded people began planning to go out in vigils in front of the consulate and embassy buildings to express their anger at the arbitrary measures and corruption taking place in the corridors of the embassy with the aim of pushing officials there to deal fairly with this critical humanitarian file.
According to the supervisory committee for the evacuation of Yemeni citizens stranded in India, the total number of stranded people returning to Yemen on four flights amounted to about 621 stranded, who were transferred from India and received at Aden Airport.
