Sanaa condemns looting of resources from Bank of Aden

SANAA, May 16 (YPA) – The High Economic Committee in Sanaa expressed “regret over silence in the corridors of the United Nations about the promises of salaries, especially at this time when Yemeni people in the midst of suffering due to blockade that has been since for years and in a bitter confrontation with the Corona epidemic.”

The committee said in a statement: “The new Corona epidemic has been compounded by the international community’s silence in the face of the dangers to which the Yemeni people are exposed, especially those in the occupied governorates who are dying of the Corona epidemic and others without the slightest care.”

“At a time when the people’s money is being plundered from the central bank in daylight and in the tens of billions, not for the first time, with the protection of the occupier, who is also engaged in the destruction of the country’s bounties without account and unaccountable,” the statement read.

“The government will spare no effort in alleviating the suffering of the steadfast state employees and all the people and will use all available resources to regularly pay half of the salary as possible, in parallel with the continued provision of public services by state institutions to all the people,” the committee added.

Official documents and speeches circulated on social media revealed that the so-called Southern Transitional Council militias looted more than 10 billion Yemeni riyals from the Central Bank of Aden.

E.M