Protests against UAE block most important roads in Shabwa

SHABWA, Sept. 20 (YPA) – Dozens of members of the UAE-backed “Shabwani elite” forces, who were laid off, on Tuesday cut off the road linking between Shabwa and Marib province, demanding the payment of their dues from Abu Dhabi.

Informed sources reported that the laid off members blocked the way in front of oil and gas tankers in Al-Uqla area in the Jardan district of Shabwa and demanded that their financial dues since last January be paid, and that they be returned to their former camps.

This came in conjunction with the implementation of a sit-in by the people of the eastern districts in Shabwa, during the last hours of today, Tuesday, in the Al-Uqla area. The protestors cut off the movement of crude oil tankers, in protest of their marginalization and disregard by the pro-UAE authorities, as a result of their demands to allocate a percentage of oil revenues to their deprived districts of development.

The command of the UAE forces in Shabwa dismissed about 5,000 members of the “Shabwani elite” force, which it established in 2016, and replaced them with a new militia known as the “Shabwa Defense”, following the overthrow of the governor loyal to Islah Party, Muhammad Saleh bin Adyo, at the end of December 2021, and the appointment of Awadh Al-Awlaqi, a leading member in the General People’s Congress Party in Shabwa.

YPA