Domestic gas crisis hits Shabwah province

SHABWAH, Aug. 16 (YPA) -The occupied directorates in Shabwah province have been experiencing a suffocating domestic gas crisis for three weeks in a row,  prompting some residents of the gas district to resort to wood to cook food.

According to  local sources in Shabwah, domestic gas is totally non-existent in all areas of the province, with some stations and shops selling gas cylinders secretly and at double prices.

The sources pointed out that long queues of citizens line daily and in hours, in front of gas shops for the purpose of obtaining a gas cylinder.

Most citizens have resorted to wood for cooking because of the lack of gas, the sources added.

The source blamed Hadi’s government and local authorities, led by the  Islah leader Brotherhood’s Mohammed bin Adio, for the lack of domestic gas and the worsening suffering of citizens.

Shabwah province in particular, and the rest of the southern provinces in general, suffers from successive crises and a total lack of basic and necessary services, amid a disregard by Hadi’s government and the pro-UAE Southern Transitional Council for the suffering of citizens and their concern for their narrow interests.

Observers have described the home gas crisis in Shabwah, a stain on  Hadi’s government and local authorities in the province where the Balhaf facility is located, which produces about 6.7 million metric tons per year of liquefied gas, but the facility, which is under the control of the United Arab Emirates, has been suspended since the beginning of the war in Yemen, after it was converted into a military barracks belonging to Abu Dhabi.

E.M