Ibn Dagher, the architect of the economy and services disaster... Facts refuting the myths of "Ben Lazraq"
English - Wednesday 23 August 2023 الساعة 09:38 am
NewsYemen, Ammar Ali Ahmed:
In a faster trial, the Mansoura Court of First Instance ruled, on Monday, the death penalty for the accused, Mohsen Rashad Ahmed. For killing the victim, Fatima Muhammad, known as the "Top Center Girl", a crime that shook public opinion in the capital, Aden.
Only two sessions, not separated by 4 days, were sufficient for the court to issue its verdict against the accused, and this was not the only remarkable thing in the case. pleading for the accused.
According to the details of the session published by journalist Abd al-Rahman Anis, the lawyer for the guardians of blood also failed to convince this lawyer out of concern for the progress of the case procedures, so that another lawyer finally accepted this task.
This strong refusal by the lawyers to defend the accused in the case of the murder of the young woman Fatima reflects the magnitude of the fear of popular discontent against accepting the task of defending the accused of the crime, which the people of the city consider one of the most cruel and horrific crimes.
This scene occurred in front of me while I was reading a lengthy article published last night by prominent journalist Fathi bin Lazraq about the issue of obstructing the entry of a diesel ship for power stations in Aden to the oil port, as a result of the refusal of the merchant who owned the cargo to unload it before the government handed over its value according to the agreement.
This incident represented an opportunity for the man to regret and regret, as he sees during the era of the former Prime Minister Ahmed bin Daghr and his government, as well as the influential businessman / Ahmed Al-Eisi, deputy head of the office of the former president, with a huge amount of fallacies, lies and fraud that did not respect the peak of the tragic scene that the people of Aden and the liberated areas are currently experiencing.
A tragic scene embodied in the great collapse of the electricity service in light of the high summer heat, in addition to their continuous suffering with the economic collapse and high rates of inflation as a result of the collapse of the value of the local currency against hard currencies, and all the details of this scene are considered by Ben Daghr to be the real engineer for him and the people of the liberated areas are paying for it today.
If we start with the file of services, specifically electricity, then the collapse of this service is nothing but the harvest of what Ibn Dagher and his government sowed in 2017 AD, by making Aden and the liberated areas at the mercy of diesel fuel and power stations purchased in all liberated cities, especially Aden, in which the man’s government and the Minister of Electricity at the time contracted with the Brotherhood. Abdullah Al-Akwa' on 170 megawatts of energy purchased for Aden, which made the fuel bill exceed 100 million dollars.
In parallel, the Ibn Daghr government deliberately did not submit any projects to establish government stations that operate with cheaper fuel, and even rejected any intervention by the coalition to address this file, as happened with the gas station that the UAE brought in in 2018 with a capacity of 120 megabytes and remained in the port of oil for months after it had invoked The government is unable to pay transportation and installation costs that do not exceed $3 million.
Rather, the government of Ahmed bin Daghr deliberately struck what is existing from the government stations, as happened with the project to rehabilitate the Al-Haswa station with the Ukrainian company at 30 million dollars, and the project ended in failure, as well as the lack of maintenance of the 60-mega station, which was stopped in 2016, only months after its inauguration due to non-oil fuel. Conforms to station specifications.
Keeping Aden and the liberated provinces at the mercy of purchased energy and diesel fuel served the interests of the government and those in power with legitimacy through this fuel deals, led by Ahmed al-Eisi, whom Ibn Lazraq admits in his article that he monopolized for more than 5 years the supply of electricity to Aden with fuel, and of course it is not free as the man tries to delude us. By doing so, he tries to beautify this corruption by saying that it was the "lowest price".
What is laughable in this file is the narration of the colleague Ben Lazk of what he sees as the achievements of Ben Daghr as "the man in whose reign the electricity worked 19 hours a day." The people of Aden have shown this great improvement since 2015 AD until today, neither during the era of Ibn Dagher nor anyone else.
Moreover, this is not considered an achievement given that the loads of Aden during that period were few compared to today, as the city at that time was still recovering from the effects of the war, and its loads did not exceed 300 megabytes, but the disaster unfolded after the era of Ibn Dagher with urban expansion and exceeding the 650 loads Mega this summer.
As for the most ridiculous fallacy, what our colleague Bin Lazraq wrote about the achievements of Bin Dagher is that he is "the man who received people's salaries in all sectors on the 25th of every month, the man whose exchange did not leave the threshold of 500 riyals for one dollar."
Of course, what he says here, the first half of it is fraud, and the other half is a lie, and the lie is that on the day the decision to dismiss Ibn Dagher was issued in October 2018 AD, the exchange rate of the US dollar had reached 750 riyals, not as Ben Lazraq claims.
As for the most serious fraud, it is about the regularity of paying salaries on the 25th of every month, and this is only half the truth. As for the last half, this achievement, as Ben Lazraq sees it, was at its price the catastrophe that the local currency suffers from today in the liberated areas.
The regularity of salary payments during Ibn Dagher’s era was nothing but a cover and justification for the disaster of the process of printing the local currency without a cover of hard currency. Rather, managing this process is more like managing a gang and not a government, according to the confession of Central Bank Governor Ahmed Ghaleb Al-Maabqi in an interview with him on the “Yemen Government” channel last June.
Where the governor of the bank said that the government printed more than 2,500 billion, describing this process as an "economic setback." Rather, he revealed that the method of managing this was described as sarcastic and painful at the same time, summarizing it with the phrase "from the port to the cashier."
A disastrous and shocking expression that reveals how Ibn Dagher was the architect of the local currency disaster, and even the architect of the catastrophic scene that the liberated areas suffer from, and how painful it is to see a prominent journalist who has a voice heard by the people while appointing himself as a lawyer for this crime and its perpetrator, without respecting the pain and pain of the people. Rather, he concludes his case by attacking the critics who created this pain and suffering by saying that they sell "illusion and myth."
