Southern leader praises Houthi, highlights important facts about salaries

ADEN, July 16 (YPA) – Sheikh Jamal bin Ataf, a leader in the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, praised Sanaa’s management of the economic file on the disbursement of salaries before the central bank moved to Aden in September 2016.

Bin Ataf said al-Houthi continued to pay employees’ salaries before the bank was transferred to Aden, for all employees, even those fighting it on the frontlines without exception.

“We thought after the central bank’s move to Aden that “legitimacy” would deal with its people as statesmen,” Bin Ataf said in a tweet on Tuesday evening.

He noted that the so-called “legitimacy” had been taken from the salaries of employees, a means of blackmailing those against it.

The bank’s move to Aden has had disastrous effects on the national economy and deprived staff of their salaries for the fourth consecutive year as a result of the arbitrary decision.

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