Disputes between the passage of Sana'a and the Houthi "transportation" over the shares of financial levies
English - Saturday 17 December 2022 الساعة 08:43 am
Sana'a, NewsYemen, exclusive:
Sources in Sana'a revealed disputes between the Traffic Department and the Ministry of Transport in the government of the Houthi militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen - as a result of illegal financial royalties imposed on taxi owners.
The sources told NewsYemen that the dispute came after the refusal of the transport office run by the Houthi militia in Sana'a to waive a share of the levies that it had previously imposed on taxi owners and drivers at the beginning of this year.
The Houthi militia imposed an amount of six thousand riyals on each bus fare per week, which is delivered to the transport office in Sana'a under the name of improvement fees, and began collecting it since February of this year, which aroused the wrath of the Houthi traffic authorities, who accused the transport office of practicing corruption related to the amounts. The collected money, which amounts to tens of millions of riyals, and their demand for the transport office to allocate a share of the levies to be supplied to the traffic authorities, which was rejected by the militia leaders in the Sana'a transport office.
According to the sources, the disputes developed until they reached the level of the leadership of the Ministries of Transport and the Interior in the authority of the Houthi militia, where the latter, which is run by the uncle of the militia leader, Abdul Karim al-Houthi, accused the Ministry of Transport of carrying out a wide corruption operation by collecting these fees, demanding that a share of them be allocated for the benefit of the traffic police, who is Which was rejected by the Ministry of Transport and considered an infringement of its powers.
The disputes came after the appointment of a leader loyal to the militias and affiliated with the Sana'a Conference as Minister of Transport, Abdul Wahhab al-Durra, who held the position of Minister of Industry in the militia authority and was appointed to succeed the former Minister of Transport affiliated with the Houthi militia, Amer al-Marrani, during whose reign these levies were imposed.
Disputes related to the practices of financial corruption and the collection of levies and royalties have become a prominent feature in the authority of the Houthi militias, as the Houthi leaders who are appointed to positions in state institutions exploit their influence to practice looting and theft of funds supplied by those institutions, whether imposed by laws in force or Collections and royalties imposed by the militia authorities without any constitutional or legal basis, including levies related to passenger bus fares imposed by the transport office in Sana'a.
