Consumer Protection Association condemns price, customs rises in southern provinces

SANAA, Jan. 12 (YPA) – The Yemeni Association for Consumer Protection on Thursday condemned the declaration of price and customs increases by the Saudi-led coalition tools in the southern provinces, which will burden citizens and increase their suffering.

In a statement issued today, the association denounced the announcement of successive price rises, which included raising the customs exchange rate, the price of domestic gas cylinders produced in Marib, and electricity and water tariffs for consumers in the southern provinces.

The Association statement stressed that these arbitrary measures will increase the area of poverty and deepens the humanitarian crisis as an additional crime committed against all consumers and its effects will reflect on them in all provinces without exception.

The statement considered that these decisions are unfair and ignore the suffering of the people of Yemen, as about 23.7 million people need humanitarian assistance, including about 13 million children.

The Association demanded, on behalf of all the consumers, that these decisions be retracted and canceled immediately for the public interest and in order to remedy their negative and catastrophic repercussions that will befall the consumers.

YPA