Issues Facing Taiz City

Peace be upon you. How are you? How are things? Everyone who comes talks about

Taiz.

We must talk about different aspects. It is as if Taiz has no services. Taiz has no water.

Taiz has no electricity. Taiz has no projects. Taiz has gas convoys.

From our officials in Taiz, what has been seized, and the granting of rights

and evidence, there is nothing else. Now, we are not talking about the illegal

levies in Taiz that are being seized daily

by the millions, excessively, without official receipts.

We know Taiz has no electricity. So what is causing our electricity shortage?

Those controlling electricity in Taiz are the military leaders.

We have identified our electricity problem here, it is the military leaders.

If it is not the military leaders, then it is the deputies and the governor.

And if it is none of them, then it is someone who has immunity given by

the military leaders in Taiz. They can tell us who is doing this.

If the ruling party is not at the top of the hierarchy

After the, uh, military commanders. Then we mention the directors and the governor.

What if we compare the issue to the murders that also occur in Taiz?

Most murders that occur in Taiz are committed by army personnel.

And if they are not army personnel, they are people who have immunity from a military leadership.

It could be an escort, an in-law, or a son of his brother, or his son,

and so on.

On this issue, most murders occur in Taiz.

Our problem with murder crimes is the military commanders.

Our problem with murder crimes is the military commanders.

We have no executive authority or an iron fist.

Most court rulings are not enforced. Why? Because we have no executive authority here

to impose its authority on the ground. Everything depends on favoritism

and connections. We also have shortcomings even regarding prices.

If you noticed, prices, as soon as the— as soon as the currency dropped,

prices then stabilized. Why? Because all the merchants here are citizens.

But merchants here in Taiz have not adjusted prices in line with

Exchange rates. Why? Because the traders here are military leaders

and agents.

The military leader himself comes to the Office of Industry and Trade and tells them,

“It’s none of your business,” using this phrase: “Stay out of it.” If we look at

most bakeries and most stores,

someone has a chain of bakeries and a chain of stores.

They control the market. Private schools are also not regulated

in terms of prices—

uh, fees. Why? The military leaders.

There’s no one with us. We have no executive authority

that can impose its authority on

the ground.

If we were to calculate the illegal levies, we would only take a simple example:

transportation alone.

We’ll take the internal level within the governorate.

If we say the 200 riyals that influential people take every day without

official receipts. We’ll simplify it to every 200 riyals. Let’s calculate these 200 riyals.

Suppose there are a thousand buses in Taiz, although there are more, around four thousand

Buses. Fine. But let's calculate it based on a thousand buses.

Okay, if each bus makes ten trips and pays on each trip

two hundred riyals. What would our estimated daily amount be? It comes to

two million.

That's if there are only a thousand buses. On a day, there are four thousand buses.

How much would that amount to? Monthly, if there are a thousand buses,

it would come to—uh,

sixty million, and annually it would come to 720 million.

Where do these amounts go?

Wh—who receives these amounts?

Okay, let's raise the amount a little. We also have those traveling

from Al-Nusairiyah—uh, to the airport, even more to Al-Bash'ah Airport.

Here, armed influential people take 1,400 riyals a day.

Who takes it? They said they belong to the airport directorate.

On what basis are these amounts collected? No one knows.

Okay, let's raise the amount a little. Let's say outside the city.

Okay, the—uh, means of transport that travel daily from Al-Barbasha

to Aden. For each taxi, they take

Thirty-four thousand. A member of the Fifth Brigade.

Guar— uh, the Presidential Guard. No need to mention the name.

On what basis is this money collected? Where does this money go?

Without official receipts?

And calculate how much it amounts to per month and per year.

How many millions are being reaped every day?

The whole street is full of potholes. There are no traffic officers, not even on the street.

Every day, water tankers leaving to fill up from Al-Dabab pay two thousand, two thousand, with

no official receipts. After the crowd is squeezed.

So how many, Dina, go out, and how many trucks go to bring back goods,

vegetables?

Who collects these sums? Where do these sums go,

in the millions?

Where do they go?

Taiz, destroyed by its influential people, the military leaders.

Our electricity problem turned out to be the military leaders, our problems with killings and the lack of

security are the military leaders, our problems with uncontrolled prices are the military

leaders, and our problems with illegal levies are also the military leaders.

The military leaders. Our problem is the military leaders themselves.

They're in control of Taiz. The ruling party.

They seized Taiz militarily.

Anyway, as long as we get along, by God, Taiz isn't poppies. That's it.