Marib oil and Aden electricity... a futile battle sparked by the Muslim Brotherhood through the "Saba" agency
English - Wednesday 21 June 2023 الساعة 09:33 am
Aden, NewsYemen, exclusive:
In the midst of the crisis that erupted during the past days between the government and the authorities of the capital, Aden, over the responsibility for the deterioration of the electricity service, a fierce battle took place between southern activists and Brotherhood activists on social media pages.
The battle was ignited by one sentence, which was mentioned in the context of the government source’s statement, which was published by Saba Agency, in response to the accusations of the governor of Aden, Ahmed Lamlas, for the government to evade its responsibility in providing electricity fuel to the city, so the government responded through the source by listing government spending figures on the electricity sector in the liberated governorates, especially the capital, Aden.
The government source, according to what was published by the "Saba" agency, mentioned, in the context of his talk about the cost of daily spending to operate electricity and generate electricity in Aden, the value of crude oil allocated to operate the PetroMasila station in Aden, explaining that this oil "80 percent of it is provided from the production fields." in Marib.
This phrase quickly sparked a fierce battle on social media pages between southern activists and Brotherhood activists, who focused on this information remarkably and suspiciously among all that was mentioned in the government source's statement, and exploited it in a fierce campaign that varied between attack and ridicule against their opponent represented in the Transitional Council. And southerners calling for disengagement and the restoration of the southern state.
This necessitated a violent reaction by southern activists, who denied the validity of this information, stressing the fact that the oil used as fuel to operate the PetroMasila station in Aden comes from the production fields in Shabwa and not from Marib, which was later confirmed by a statement by a responsible source in the local authority in Shabwa, who He said that 95% of the crude oil used to operate the station since the beginning of the year is oil extracted from production fields in the governorate.
Amidst the din of this battle, some activists noticed that this phrase, which was mentioned in the statement of the government source published in the official Saba agency, which talks about providing crude oil for the operation of the PetroMasila station in Aden from the production fields in Marib, does not exist in the context of the statement published on The official page of the Council of Ministers on "Twitter".
This clearly indicates the addition of this phrase by those in charge of the "Saba" agency, which is still subject to the influence of the Brotherhood, and what reinforces this is the haste of the group's activists to exaggerately celebrate this phrase, and ignite a heated battle on social networking sites that overshadowed the real crisis of The failure of the government to manage the services file in the liberated governorates.
The Brotherhood campaign was met with strong objection by activists from Marib, who deplored the Brotherhood's continued abuse of Marib by using it as a banner for their battles against their opponents and creating enemies for it at a time when it still faces the threat of the Houthi militia seeking to control it militarily and seize its oil and gas fields.
