MP’s Urge Withdrawing Confidence from Mujawar’s Govt
Now that they voted themselves another two years in office, they are getting a bit more outspoken. Actually theres some members of Parliament including GPC members who see the disaster unwinding but they have little power to do anything, considering they all take their orders from Saleh. Firing the heads of all the ministries and replacing them with neutral technocrats might have a good effect but it would be limited by the hyper-politicization of everything in Yemen and by the fact that the real power isn’t in the ministries either.
Yemen Post: MPs have urged to withdraw the confidence from the government, with MPs describing the current cabinet led by Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Mujawar as corrupt and ‘ reckless’.
MPs also urged to hold the ruling party accountable for wasting the public funds.
During Tuesday’s sitting devoted to discussing the electricity problems, being discussed for the third time this year, MP Sakhr Al-Wajeeh said the government through abandoning pledges and procrastination over building a train for the Marb Gas Power plant has caused losses estimated at more than a half billion dollars since 2007.
The train should have cost only $ 5 million, he said, pointing to a contract the government had signed with the Safer Company over its construction.
It, the government, has been borrowing money…much money….for the train but it avoids implementing it according to the contract, he added.
MP Abdul Razaq Al-Hagri, for his part, said influential brokers and barren plans to purchase power from outside were key reasons for the paralysis of the plant.
These brokers are the only beneficiaries from the halt of the plant as it brings billions of riyals for them.
Other MPs including those from the ruling party attributed the persistence of power problems to corruption and the absence of a clear strategy to solve the problems.
Others suggested that patching solutions were behind the failure in brining the plant into a success.
Earlier the Services Committee in Parliament revealed many violations at the plant as it was to start an experimental operation, urging a probe into the violations.
