The Brotherhood's authority stifles the alternative outlets of Taiz with levies and corruption
English - Tuesday 13 December 2022 الساعة 03:31 pm
Taiz, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
Taxes and truck overturning on alternative roads in Taiz have caused heavy losses to the governorate's merchants and added economic burdens to the citizens.
Taiz merchants complain that truck drivers imposed an increase in transportation fees because of the increase in levies imposed by the Brotherhood authority on transport lines in the alternative roads of the besieged city of Taiz, in addition to the increase in accidents.
Commercial sources and workers in the transport sector told NewsYemen that more than 40 rollover accidents of transport trucks occurred during the month of November and the first week of December, on the alternative roads of Taiz, as a result of neglecting the improvement of the alternative roads despite the collection of large sums of money from drivers through the collection points scattered along the roads.
The sources added that the levies and the absence of maintenance of alternative roads to Taiz under the control of the Brotherhood militia, have multiplied the effects of the siege imposed by the Houthi militia on the governorate.
In the context, an economic symposium organized by the Economic Media Center confirmed that the doubling of unofficial financial levies, the fate of which is unknown, is added to the prices of commodities that burden citizens.
According to the economic symposium, the collection points have today become a "mafia" and organized gangs that expel any investment opportunities in the country.
The participants in the symposium called for addressing the problem of levies carried out by military points against cargo trucks, and recommended the need for a real assessment of the status of the transport sector’s structure, including ports and a destroyed road network, as it is the most prominent consequence of the war.
It also recommended drawing up short-term plans to recover the transportation sector and restore its activity in light of the Houthi militia's refusal to open the main roads.
According to a previous monitoring published by NewsYemen, about 10 points spread on Al-Aqroud-Taiz and Lahj-Taiz road impose levies of more than half a million riyals, in addition to 6 points that start with the point of the Transportation Office in the Al-Turbah area and end with the point of Jabal Han.
The monitoring report indicated that truck owners and traders alike suffered huge losses, which doubled food prices in the city of Taiz.
Truck drivers and merchants criticized the silence of the concerned authorities and the security and military agencies regarding the practices and imposition of levies that are collected without official bonds, accusing those authorities of benefiting from the levies and the continuation of the Houthi blockade of the city.
