A huge financial resource for the First Military Forces in Wadi Hadramout
English - Sunday 08 January 2023 الساعة 05:44 pm
Seiyun, newsyemen, exclusive:
Great desperation is shown by the forces of the First Military Region to remain in the areas of Wadi and desert of Hadramout, southeast of Yemen, despite the popular rejection and the escalation of protests and demands for the necessity of removing these huge regular forces to the battle fronts to confront the expansion of the Houthi militia - Iran's arm in Yemen.
A number of activists published on social media, pictures of documents and agreements concluded between a foreign company operating in the field of energy in Wadi Hadramout, and the leadership of a brigade affiliated with the First Military Region loyal to the Brotherhood's Islah Party. The leaked documents showed the huge amount of money that is deducted and taken by the military brigade "monthly" under the cover of protection.
The documents included forcing the Cypriot Calvale Company, operating in the oil sector No. 9 in Wadi Hadramout, to pay a sum of money every month to the First Military Region Command, specifically its 37th Armored Brigade, for protection. During previous years, the company was obligated to hand over $15,000 per month, which is being handed over to the Yemeni Ministry of Oil, which in turn delivers it to the leadership of the first military region.
According to the documents, the Cypriot company was obligated to deliver the sums of money in advance every three months, and these sums were justified as covering costs and expenses, without even referring to the right of protection that the military leaders in the first region force the oil companies operating in the areas under their control to pay or obstruct production and export operations.
According to the activist and political writer, Salah Bin Laghbar, who published a copy of the leaked documents, the protection sums imposed on Sector 9 of the Cypriot company Calvale doubled from $15,000 per month to about $50,000 in 2011, and today about $90,000 is handed over to leaders. Military in the first district directly in years.
The activist pointed out that all these amounts were imposed on one sector out of other oil sectors located in the valley and desert of Hadramout. Where the military leaderships in the first region receive large sums of money every month from the oil companies under their control, on a compulsory basis.
The First Military Command and the influential parties supporting it refuse to move these forces towards the battle fronts to confront Iran's arm in accordance with the terms of the military part of the Riyadh Agreement sponsored by the Arab coalition countries led by Saudi Arabia.
Military experts and analysts believe that the survival of the first region, in Wadi Hadramout, is nothing but a presence to control that geography rich in oil wealth and mineral wealth mines, explaining that the justifications of the First Military Command that it is committed in the theater of its operations comes based on Republican Decree No. 16 of 2013, which is the period of the Brotherhood’s control The Yemeni presidency, which gave their forces the right to control and the right to remain geographically in the region rich in oil and mineral wealth, with the aim of continuing the process of seizing the proportions of the right of protection and revenues.
The Yemeni Congregation for Reform (the Muslim Brotherhood organization in Yemen) is now at the forefront of the scene behind the total refusal to implement the step of removing the first military zone to the fronts to confront the Iranian project led by the Houthi militia. The Islah Party is promoting many projects in the Hadhramaut Valley, including a project for secession and the establishment of the state of Hadhramaut to confront the escalation of popular protests condemning the survival of the first military forces and the need to remove them to the fronts in accordance with the Riyadh Agreement, to which the Islah Party was a party to its approval.
