Electricity Syndicate in Aden calls citizens to organize protest rallies

ADEN, May 30 (YPA) – The Electricity Syndicate in the city of Aden, south of Yemen, called on all residents to go out to the streets of the city in a protest rally on the next Wednesday, in front of the Ma’ashiq Palace gate.

The Syndicate confirmed in a statement that the rally in front of Al-Ma’asheq Palace aims to find urgent solutions for the city’s electricity, and to recover its deteriorating situation.

The statement stressed feasible solutions by introducing the Petrol-Masila power station, rehabilitating the Al-Haswa, Al-Mansoura, Al-Qatria and Shahnaz stations, and returning them to service at a cost of $50 million, instead of renting energy from the purchased floating ship that costs nearly $130 million, in a corruption deal for the coalition-run Aden government.

It indicated that the government’s insistence on renting the purchased energy ship did not serve to improve the electricity service in Aden, which would go to the rumors of corruption, accusing the coalition officials of destroying the electricity sector in Aden with premeditation and bringing it to the brink of collapse.

The statement urged the Syndicate’s committees to mobilize workers from all province to move towards the Al-Ma’asheq Palace, calling on civil society organizations and the people of Aden to actively participate.

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