Taiz: Gas station agents organize protest march over escalating domestic gas crisis

TAIZ, May 14 (YPA) – The city of Taiz witnessed a large-scale protest march on Wednesday organized by gas station agents.

A convoy of trucks loaded with empty gas cylinders traversed the city streets, arriving in front of the Saudi-backed local authority building on Jamal Street, in protest against the suffocating domestic gas crisis that has been gripping the city since last January.

The protesters accused the incumbent authorities of practicing a policy of “marginalization and incompetence” regarding the crisis. They asserted that the continued reduction in gas quantities arriving from the Safer facility—controlled by the Islah Party—is not a mere technical glitch, but rather a “deliberate act” that has exacerbated the suffering of citizens.

The participants held the management of the Gas Company directly responsible for fabricating this crisis and turning a blind eye to repeated distress calls. They stated that the stalling policy adopted by the company’s management has made obtaining a gas cylinder a distant dream for the ordinary citizen.

The protesters demanded that the Saudi-backed government take immediate action to end what they described as “tampering.” They threatened to continue their open-ended marches and sit-ins, rejecting what they termed as “false promises,” and vowed to persist until the full quota allocated to the people of Taiz is secured and regular supply is guaranteed, free from “the hands of tampering and crisis profiteering.”

YPA