Four GPC MP’s in Sa’ada Resign After Failure of “Reconstruction”
The Yemeni government announced several times that reconstruction aid would go first to “loyal” villages. Doesn’t sound very conciliatory to me. But it seems that even the pro-government personalities aren’t getting their due. The Houthis have said repeatedly that nothing is happening on the ground and all the announcements are propaganda. Ya think?
YEMEN – Four of Sa’adah governorate’s prominent ruling General People’s Congress party (GPC) members submitted their resignation to the President, the General Secretary, and the party’s block leader.
The three MPs, Othman Mujali, Abdulsalam Saleh Hashool Zabiah, Faiz Abdullah Saleh al-Ojiri, and Faisal Iraij, resigned from the GPC as a “first step”, according to the message which the three members signed and submitted to the president.
In a message to the President, the resigning members attributed their dissatisfaction to repeated failures to implement promises and the governorate’s development matrix in Sa’adah, “the negligence and lack of interest by the government in all of the events and the sufferings of the people of the area”, as well their belief in a government agency conspiracy against all of the governorate’s crucial issues.
Other reasons for the resignation according to the members is the lack of care for the families of martyrs and injured people, and “the treatment of the honest cooperating persons in the governorate as groups of mercenaries and rebels,” and “the isolation of all the honest and loyal personalities from the participation in resolving the governorate’s problems”.
The leaders shrouded their resignation with confidentiality and secrecy, causing them to deny it. Others declined to give any statements; however Abdulsalam Zabiah told the Yemen Observer that they have reservations about making statements about the resignation, pointing out that they had received promises from unnamed parties, and that they are waiting for the fulfillment of these promises.
Al-Ojiri and Mujali used to be among the great tribal leaders who cooperated with the government army in fighting against the Houthis.
Analysts say that the resignation of these MPs from the GPC, particularly the resignation of al-Ojiri and Mujali, is a shift in position towards the authorities in Sa’adah, especially because they called their resignation a “first step”. Others say that the resignations are not serious and that they are only intended to intimidate in order to get their personal demands met.
Faiz al-Ojiri, representative of constituency 271, has accused one of his fellow GPC MPs from Ibb governorate of spreading rumors over their resignation.
Al-Ojiri denied in a statement to News Yemen that he sent any message to the President.
MP Othman Hussein Mujali told News Yemen that he didn’t resign from the GPC, however he pointed out a number of demands before his Sa’adah MPs, such as those mentioned in the message to the President.
