Bin Lazraq reveals new scandal for UN work in Yemen

ADEN, Oct. 05 (YPA) -The journalist Fathi Bin Lazraq, editor-in-chief of the Aden Al-Ghad periodical, has revealed the size of a great corruption scandal that humanitarian aid provided to the Yemeni people and received by the United Nations over the 8 years has been exposed to.

Bin Lazraq said: “The United Nations says that it spent $31 billion in Yemen during 8 years of war, and by a simple calculation it is clear that it spent $ 3,875,000,000, or three billion and 875 million dollars every year.”

“This staggering number of funds is more than half of Yemen’s pre-war budget, which included the salaries of all Yemenis, infrastructure projects, electricity, water, and every penny the government spends on the people,” he said.

He continued: “The United Nations goes every year to all international forums to say that it has spent all this money in Yemen, while on the ground Yemen and its people have received only quantities of rotten flour, rice that is thrown to livestock and quantities of bad oils that caused an increase in the number of strokes.”

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