Dozens of oil company employees protest in Aden

ADEN, Jan. 17 (YPA) – Dozens of oil company employees in Aden city, south of Yemen, organized on Sunday a protest rally to condemn a plot targeting the control of “Caltex” oil facility.

At the rally, the protesters said that a decree of the director of the oil company, Intisar Al-Arashah, to refer dozens of employees and cadres to retirement, was to circumvent and deny their financial rights.

The participants called for to return the retired employees to the work in the facility and give their dues, similar to the rest of the employees of the administrative units of the Ministry of Oil.

They noted that keeping the Caltex facility in the hands of the tenant means continuing to violate the law and under the consideration of the judicial authority that passed the arbitration ruling and the acceptance of the concerned authorities, which is forfeiting the assets of the Yemeni Oil Company.

The so-called “Southern Anti-Corruption Commission” accused Afara of destroying the facility since its rental, 25 years ago, through a corruption lobby that is still rampant in the province.

The Commission considered that this is a great neglect of the most important sovereign oil facility for the national economy.

The Caltex oil facility provides supply services to ships in the Aden Free Zone, as it has strategic storage capacity. Its annual revenues amount to billions of riyals, which were supposed to go to the state treasury.

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