Military Economic Corporation Steals Land in Aden
then they sell it cheap to “influential persons” who resell it at a huge profit or sometimes keep it.
ADEN, NewsYemen
The member of Parliament Abdul-Bari Doghaish could not complete narrating the story of people lost their lands and houses in Dar Daad in Aden at the Parliament’s session on Monday.
The bitter feeling of the situation of those people, some of them died and some others committed suicide due to injustice and deprivation of their rights forced Doghaish to stop finishing the story, which he could bring to the Parliament for the first time.
Doghaish’s colleagues Sakhr al-Wajeeh and Ensaf Mayo urged to hold back measures being taken by the Land and Estates Authority to hand over the Military Economic Corporation lands in Dar Saad and to hand over those lands to their legal owners. They also recommended to restore lands taken from their owners in the past and to obligate the Local Authority in Aden to compensate people whose houses were “unduly destroyed”.
The members attacked the Military Economic Corporation, which has confiscated lands in Aden.
The MP al-Wajeeh asked the Parliament to form an inspection committee to scrutinize the reality of the corporation, which has activities in different fields, according to al-Wajeeh. “We really do not know if it is military or economic!” said al-Wajeeh.The member Mohammad al-Naqeeb said “the corporation has taken lands enough to be a republic”, while the member Mohsin Ba-Sora described the quandary as “timed bomb that may affect the national unity”.
The head of Lands and Estates Authority’s office in Aden Yahya Ba Dwaid admitted that some legal failures led to the crisis of lands in Aden that “affects the social peace”. He asked for amendments of legislations related to lands and estates.
The Parliament decided to send an order to the government to compel the minister of local administration and Adel local authority to achieve the Parliament’s recommendations regarding houses destroyed and lands confiscated by the Military Economic Corporation.
