Again, after 7 years, the governor of Al-Jawf Al-Awadi confronts the “Brotherhood” with levies and defeats
English - Wednesday 14 December 2022 الساعة 08:07 am
Al-Jawf NewsYemen, exclusive:
With a great similarity in the context and a slight difference in the details, the scene of the conflict in Al-Jawf governorate returns between its governor, Major General Hussein Al-Aji Al-Awadi, and the Brotherhood, which sees the governorate as a spoil that cannot be waived, even if the price is its survival in the hands of the Houthi group. As long as the governorate remained a name on paper, it would provide the Brotherhood with money and influence.
Similarities and recalling the recurrence of the scene of the conflict after more than 7 years, Al-Awadi referred to it in his last statement that he issued, last Thursday, two months after the decision to appoint him for the second time in the position of governor of Al-Jawf, without enabling him to do so, as a result of the obstacles practiced by the Brotherhood through its tools in the governorate. And headed by the former governor and leader of the group, Amin al-Okaimi.
Where Al-Awadi spoke about the refusal of the previous administration of the governorate to deal with the committee formed by the Ministry of Local Administration to receive and hand over between him and the former governor, referring to what preceded that of the statement issued by the branch of the Islah Party (the local arm of the Yemeni Brotherhood) in Al-Jawf rejecting his appointment decision issued by the Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council Last October, and what followed tribal fights.
In his statement, Al-Awadi recalls what he was subjected to by the party and its leaders in the governorate during his first term as governor from late 2014 AD to mid-2016 AD, as he considers what is happening to him today as "the third time that obstacles to work in Al-Jawf have been placed in front of him," citing what he was subjected to. After the liberation of the capital of the province, Al-Hazm, in mid-2015 AD, when he went to the city, in coordination with the leaders of the Islah party in the province, led by Sheikh Amin Al-Akimi, the former governor, Sheikh Al-Hassan Abkar, and the head of the party branch at the time, Abdul Hamid Amer.
The governor reveals that when he arrived at the first point around the city of Al-Hazm, the capital of the governorate, he was surprised by armed men who obstructed his arrival at the local authority building, and that the reformist leaders suggested that he return to Marib under the pretext that his entry "provokes the Houthis to open a battle while they are preoccupied with the battle of Al-Yatma." Al-Awadi adds: "We promised without Announcement or media, in order to preserve the unity of the ranks and the morale of the resistance.. A few days later, Al-Yatmah fell, followed by Al-Hazm and Banat, and its liberation at the end of the same year required a lot of efforts and sacrifices.
What the governor said clearly reveals - even if he did not disclose it - the extent of the plot that was hatched for him by the party leaders to overthrow him from office, by exploiting the incident of the fall of the capital of Al-Jawf and holding him responsible for it, due to his absence from the battle and his stay in Marib, which he did not succeed in. After the army and resistance forces, with the support of the coalition, were able to restore what the Houthi militia had taken control of by the end of 2015.
The failure of the matter prompted the Brotherhood leaders to fabricate a new justification through which they could overthrow the man from the position of governor, and they did so by exploiting the issue of fines imposed by the leadership of the governorate on smuggled fuel (which entered through the port of Mukalla, which was then under the control of al-Qaeda) which It passes through Al-Jawf towards the areas controlled by the Houthi militia. Which Al-Awadi allocated for the benefit of the people of the province, including supporting the army, alleviating the suffering of the wounded, and consoling the families of the martyrs.
Here, the Brotherhood dressed in the clothes of integrity and transparency, to launch a systematic campaign against Governor Al-Awadi on this issue by creating an entity led by its members called the "Higher Coordination of the Youth Revolution." It was devoted to incitement against the man under the banner of corruption and the looting of the governorate’s revenues, but since the change of Al-Awadi, it is the same group that has controlled since 2015 the huge revenues of the Ma’rib governorate, especially domestic gas, without anyone knowing its fate. Rather, it refuses to this day the directives of the Presidential Leadership Council to supply all revenues of the liberated areas to the Central Bank in Aden.
The scene of incitement reached its climax with the group’s elements storming the office of Governor Al-Awadi in late May 2016 AD, as a justification only to issue its decision to overthrow him, as it was then in complete control of the decision within the legitimacy, which was done in mid-August 2016 AD when former President Hadi issued a decision appointing the Brotherhood’s Amin Al-Akimi, So the course of the battles against the Houthi militia stops with him, and the battle moves into the ranks of the Brotherhood in Al-Jawf, after Al-Okaimi launched his own battles to impose his control over the governorate and get rid of all the military and civil leaders with strong influence, even if they were Brotherhood.
Where Al-Aykami fought a violent struggle with the Commander of the Sixth Military Region, the late Major General Amin Al-Waeli, until he was overthrown by appointing Major General Hashem Al-Ahmar as his replacement in early 2018, who also entered into a dispute with Al-Akimi, who issued a decision to dismiss Hashem and appoint another as his replacement, in a move that sparked At that time, it was a widespread mockery of a governor presenting a decision to appoint a commander for a military region, which reflected the extent of the man's insistence on monopolizing the scene in Al-Jawf without any challenge, even if he was one of the leaders of the Brotherhood, who was presenting him as a leader of Al-Jawf resistance, like Al-Hassan Abkar, who left the country towards Turkey.
And with the scene of the terrible fall that the legitimacy fronts were subjected to in early 2020, and the fall of Al-Jawf Governorate entirely in the hands of the Houthi militia, including the capital, Al-Hazm, which fell in March of the same year, earlier he rushed to hold Al-Okaimi responsible for the fall of the governorate, speaking at the time of the issuance of orders to withdraw to the forces The army and the resistance in front of the Houthi militia, in an implicit accusation against al-Okaimi of handing over the province without a fight.
Abkar renewed his hold on Al-Okaimi of responsibility for the fall of Al-Jawf in the hands of Al-Houthi, in a video clip broadcast on his Facebook page, last Sunday, in response to the statement issued by Al-Awadi recently. He indicated that he had recently arrived in Saudi Arabia and that he was working to mediate between Al-Okaimi and Al-Awadi.
It was also remarkable the admission made by Abkar and the recognition that the conflict in Al-Jawf is a conflict over “money and levies.” The man also touched on the previous dispute with Al-Awadi over the fees he imposed on oil derivatives, stressing that the demands of his “Brotherhood” group at the time were limited to imposing One of their members is within the committee charged with collecting these fees as well as imposing appointments for specific names, including his son Abdullah, and he submitted this in a letter to Al-Awadi in his handwriting.
What Abkar says can be considered as a testimony summarizing the features of the struggle that the Brotherhood is waging against Al-Awadi and against all forces and personalities in the liberated areas, as a struggle for influence and money, even if the entire geography of the country falls into the hands of the Houthi militias. It's just about being a "money supplier" and nothing more.
