Sana'a.. Suffocating crises and Houthi doses in the household gas market
English - Wednesday 09 February 2022 الساعة 03:11 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen:
The price of a 20-liter domestic gas cylinder reached 14,000 Yemeni riyals (approximately $25), in Sanaa and the governorates under the control of the Houthi coup militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen.
Since its coup in 2014, the Houthi militia has exploited the needs of the population in Sanaa and the neighboring governorates, for cooking gas to make profits, and to profit from fabricating crises, so it provokes crises after crises, and approves dose after dose to make gas cylinders a dream for every family.
Before the year 2011, gas filling stations were spread in various neighborhoods, and distribution vans roamed the lanes, at a price not exceeding a thousand riyals, to start after this year a series of doses that raised the price of gas cylinders to about 7,000 riyals through the galleries of the lanes, and 14,000 riyals through the black market, which run by the Houthi militia.
Sources in the Safer Company in the Ma’rib governorate had clarified that the official price of a gas cylinder approved by the Safer Department is 2,300 riyals per cylinder, while its price after delivery to Sana’a and the rest of the governorates does not exceed 3100 to 3500 riyals per cylinder as a maximum.
Since the coup of the Houthi militia in September 2014, the domestic gas service in Sanaa and the neighboring governorates has become a commodity for bargaining and extortion, and its distribution has become subject to mobilization and recruitment for the fronts, collection of royalties, and attendance at mobilization events with sectarian dimensions and connotations.
