Aidarous stipulated revenue, Al-Sharafi: the south will secure its rights, and Al-Sufyani: Southern Oil is not to placate the Houthis

English - Monday 03 October 2022 الساعة 07:07 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, special:

A northern journalist criticized the legitimate government's continued sympathy with the terrorist Houthi militia, the Iranian arm in Yemen, with the aim of extending the armistice at the expense of the wealth of the south.

The journalist, Essam Al-Sufyani, said in a post on his Facebook account, that Al-Houthi wants salaries for his soldiers from the oil of Hadramaut and Shabwa, and the legitimacy goes along with it and agrees to its terms as if the oil of the south is public.

He added, "The southerners said it clear. If you are with the war, we are with you until we take you to Sanaa, and after that each side returns to its country. But the legitimacy is pampering the Houthis and trying to please them."

 In this regard, he called on the leaders of the North to return to Sana'a and pay the employees' salaries from the privileges they receive.

The Iranian arm refused to accept the humanitarian truce that ended yesterday evening, Sunday, due to the Presidential Leadership Council's failure to agree to transfer revenues to Sanaa for the payment of salaries.

Al-Ayyam newspaper quoted its sources as saying that a member of the Presidential Leadership Council - President of the Southern Transitional Council, Aidarous Al-Zubaidi, refused to concede to the Houthis regarding public sector salaries in Sanaa and the Houthi areas, which they are demanding to be paid by the legitimate government in Aden.

Al-Zubaidi stipulated, according to southern sources, that the revenues of the Central Bank in Sanaa, Hodeidah, and Marib be transferred to Aden first, before allowing salaries to be paid from Aden to Sanaa.

A member of the southern negotiating delegation, Anis Al-Sharafi, said that the legitimate government's response to the Houthis' demands to pay the salaries of state employees in their areas of control from oil revenues and taxes in the liberated areas deposited in the Central Bank of Aden will push the southerners to take special measures to ensure their rights.