Houthi militia closes 12 companies, including "Natco"
English - Wednesday 23 March 2022 الساعة 03:01 pm
Sana'a, NewsYemen:
The Houthi militia closed a number of leading national companies in the field of food, led by Natco, a subsidiary of Hayel Saeed Anam Group, the first trading company in Yemen.
The Houthi authorities justified their closing of the companies under their control, in a news release published by its affiliated Saba Agency, on the words of the Minister of Industry in the militia authority, Abdul Wahab Al-Durra, that this comes due to the increase in food prices by some companies.
The Houthi leader, appointed by the militia as director of the Industry and Trade Office of the Capital Sana'a, stated that the Houthi campaign closed 12 commercial companies and that they will not be reopened - companies - except by restoring prices to what they were in February, according to the agency.
This comes in light of the popular pressure that the militia faces and is apprehensive by the citizens in its areas of control because of the policy of collection and starvation against them, and an attempt to divert attention and blame the merchants for what the citizen suffers from.
Merchants and businessmen working in militia-controlled areas are witnessing continuous campaigns of extortion and the imposition of taxes and royalties, the intensity of which has increased in conjunction with the advent of the blessed month of Ramadan, which the militia is trying to exploit to loot merchants under the pretext of zakat.
Earlier, many Yemeni businessmen were subjected to repeated attacks by the leaders of the group and influential people in the authority of the militia, including a relative of the businessman Hassan al-Kbous in Sana'a; Who was severely beaten for refusing to pay money and royalties, as well as the kidnapping of businessman Amin Ahmed Qassem, and the seizure of his money.
The businessman, Amin Jamaan, was also attacked and assassinated in Sana'a, as part of its systematic campaign against the national capital, which could have serious repercussions on the national economy.
Commenting on the encroachment and the militia's closure of commercial companies, led by Natco, activists expressed their indignation at the Houthis' targeting of national capital.
Activist and writer Ahmed al-Nabhi said, who can convince the Houthis that closing a company owned by philanthropist Hayel Saeed Anam, and before him the assault on a member of the al-Kbous family, as well as the attack on businessmen Ahmed Qassem and Ahmed Jamaan, is an attack against the national capital.
He considered that this establishes the Houthis' unfriendly stance towards the national capital and its owners, and harms the national economy.
For his part, activist Ali Al-Alwani said: The Houthis are gangsters and thieves, not statesmen, and this behavior embodies that they are just a rogue gang.
To that, blogger Sadiq Al-Naqeeb said: The behavior of blackmailing and squandering the national capital is nothing but an attempt to escape from the militia's corruption by creating crises.
