Dozens of Aden Refinery employees stage protest rally

ADEN, July. 08 (YPA) – Dozens of Aden Refinery employees staged on Friday a protest rally to confront the corruption operations in the company.

Sources in the Refinery Workers Syndicate said that the employees worked to close the port of Aden, south of Yemen, and refused to supply ships with fuel.

The sources stated that the company’s management summoned armed men to the port to force the employees to resume refueling the ships. However, the gunmen, despite the threats, failed to move the employees from their positions.

The steps to stop supplying ships with fuel were taken by refinery workers due to the looting operations that amounted to millions of dollars from the company’s publicly owned funds, the sources added. In addition to efforts to compel the company to stop any commercial activities outside of addressing the oil derivatives crisis afflicting Aden.

The journalist Fathi Belzark had revealed a few days ago the latest corruption operation committed by the Aden Refineries Administration, through a bogus maintenance deal worth 105 million dollars.
The Aden Refineries Company called on all workers, employees, members of the refinery union and all the beneficiaries of the refinery to maintain the regulations and laws regulating union work and the refinery.
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