Ibb Governorate leads the scene in the high rate of crime and acts of Violence
English - Wednesday 23 February 2022 الساعة 04:37 pm
Ibb, NewsYemen:
Ibb governorate suffers from a remarkable escalation of violence and a diversification of crime, especially murder incidents, which reflect a frightening security reality.
During the past two days, the owners of gas stations organized a comprehensive strike in protest of an influential Houthi militia attacking one of the stations, bypassing a queue of citizens to fill up his car with fuel at gunpoint.
The matter did not stop here, as this week witnessed frightening killing incidents that claimed the lives of more than three citizens, adding to several incidents in the governorate that ended in murder since the beginning of January of this year.
Local sources had reported the killing of a lawyer by a gunman in a qat market in the Al-Zahhar area near the city under the control of the Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen.
Lawyer Bassam Al-Raadi was shot last Saturday by a gunman named Haitham Al-Hajri before he was arrested later.
In the same context and in another incident, one of the vendors was run over in front of the Ibb Traffic Department in the Ablan region, during a dispute between a bus driver and a traffic police member.
On the third hand, a citizen was killed by members of his wife's family after being beaten to death after trying to force him to sell the house, half of which was written in his wife's name.
And last year 2021 witnessed dozens of incidents in which the militia did not stop, amid rising voices calling for the militants to be held accountable, to no avail.
These events were accompanied by a number of suicides inside the governorate. February, which has not yet ended, witnessed two suicides of two young men in the prime of life as a result of poverty and the pressures caused by the war.
It is worth noting that the governorate suffers from a shortage of foodstuffs that were provided by the organizations. In addition to the delay in social security payment, the widespread black market, a stifling crisis in oil derivatives, and the manipulation of gas distribution quotas by Houthi supervisors.
