Yes the Central Bank too
Sanaa: The Yemen opposition alliance called for the forming of a national committee for supervising the Central Bank and oil revenues after being accused by President Ali Abdullah Saleh of planning to steal the country’s properties.
“We in the Joint Meeting Parties [JMP] have demanded that the Central Bank be an independent establishment, far from government control,” said Ali Al Sarari, chairman of the media committee of the opposition presidential candidate campaign.
“Our candidate has spoken a lot about the revenues of oil which do not go to the interest of the nation or the national economy,” Al Sarari said.
“We have called for forming a national committee from all political parties to supervise the oil revenues and this committee will be reporting where the oil revenues go, and we have called for making the Central Organisation for Controlling and Auditing responsible to the Parliament, not to the Presidential Office as it is now,” he added.
While campaigning this week, Saleh launched a strong attack on the five-party opposition alliance, JMP, competing for the country’s top post.
“They have a plan to steal the Central Bank with its estimated $6 billion [about Dh22 billion] reserve and steal the ministry of oil and the general companies, ministry of communication and general companies and nationalise them in favour of [JMP] and [take] over the ministry of electricity,” Saleh said in his rally in Hajja, north of the country.
Politics professor at Sanaa University Abdullah Al Feqeeh said: “To prove that he is innocent of the accusations … the President should tell the people about his properties and the property of his family members and relatives.”
In a later rally Saleh said he would work to apply the Law of Financial Obligation if re-elected. The parliament has recently passed a law requiring all state and government officials, including the president and the vice-president, to state their properties before taking over their posts.
Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh accused the opposition alliance of seeking to turn Yemen into Iraq and Somalia.
“They want to make an Iraqi Somali Yemen but that’s further to them than the sun because the people support the security and stability, unity and democracy and development and, behind them, the army establishment,” Saleh told the crowd in a big election rally held on Wednesday night in the coastal city of Hodiedah, in the west of the country. “They conspire against the nation’s security, stability, unity and they want to divide the nation into small Sultanates and small states,” Saleh said in a strong-worded speech in obvious reference to the two largest opposition parties the Socialist Party and Islah Party.
No immediate reaction from the Opposition was available to the President’s accusations.
The Opposition candidate, however, launched a strong attack on the current leadership accusing it of corruption and totalitarianism.
They also confescated JMP cassette tapes.
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The Central Bank of Yemen has never illegally transferred checks to the Permanent Committee for the General People’s Congress, a bank official stated.
The official responded to the accusation made last Thursday by JMP spokesman Mohammed Qahtan that checks had “mysteriously” ended up in the GPC’s coffers.
The documents Qahtan presented as proof of these alleged illegal activities were clever forgeries, a bank official told the Saba News Agency. Whilst the forgers used several bank logos that are very difficult to reproduce, the notifications and statements were not produced by the bank.
“The monthly statements and the bank notifications that Mohammed Qahtan has publicized were crafted in a specialized laboratory run by professionals working for illegal gains,” said the official. “Using forgery for political purposes indicates the existence of a grudge against the country, the government and its institutions. One of these institutions is the Central bank, which has its own high status and independence. The Bank will reveal the identity of these people, and it has assigned its legal affairs department to pursue criminal charges against them.”
The official stated that the Bank has never dealt with the GPC.
Thats really funny.
