Widespread Land Theft is Now Solved, Saleh
Note the thieves are not going to jail (they never do), and the 300 landowners are not getting their property back. This announcement is very late and propaganda in advance of some hokey show about dialog that’s upcoming. Maybe Saleh is trying to split the opposition. The Yemeni government itself listed the government recipients of stolen land and exactly which plots of land, we published the document a few times already since it was issued in 2007. Then there’s unresolved land theft in other areas besides Aden and the personal appropriation of government owned land like that of the Ministry of Endowments. There are no real efforts to reform or diminish tensions through accountability.
Saleh order to compensate 300 southerners for lands
ADEN, Dec. 16 (Saba) – President Ali Abdullah Saleh has given orders to compensate 300 people in Aden for confiscating their plots of land, a move which comes amid solutions to the standing dilemma of properties in the south, an official said on Wednesday.Director General of the Land and Survey Authority in Yemen’s business capital Sheikh Salim Ba Nafa’a said the president is very concerned with the 17-year standing issue of lands at the Hiswa area, ordering now to compensate those whose lands were confiscated under public urgency or due to other reasons.
The years-long problem is now resolved, he said, urging the compensated people to attend to the authority’s compound to finalize compensation procedures.
