Al-Mahra Governor Warns of US-Saudi Mercenaries’ Continuation in Loot Governorate’s Wealth
Al-Mahra Governor warned against the continuation of US-Saudi forces and their mercenaries in implementing plans to loot the governorate’s wealth and destabilize security, stability and social peace.
Governor Al-Qatabi Ali Hussein Al-Faraj praised the honorable stances of the people of the governorate and their rejection of projects that are strange to the Mahri society, stressing the refusal of the people of Mahra to calls for a suspicious dialogue in Riyadh between the US-Saudi mercenaries.
He confirmed that Almahra people are not deceived by false slogans launched by the US-Saudi mercenaries against their homeland as they are responsible for thousands of crimes they committed against their countrymen in various provinces.
He pointed to the aggression and land, air and sea blockade that Al-Mahra Governorate and Yemen in general have been subjected to for more than seven years, which caused the worst humanitarian crisis, in light of a shameful international and UN silence.
Last week, minister of Oil and Minerals, Ahmed Daris, confirmed that the Saudi backed government is looting and stealing oil in all governorates and is responsible for illegally renting Yemeni islands.
Minister Daris explained that in 2018, oil production amounted to 18 million barrels of crude oil, in 2019 more than 29 million barrels, in 2020 more than 31 million barrels, and in 2021 31 million barrels of crude oil.
He pointed out that the production of crude oil in the occupied areas since the beginning of the year has reached only five million barrels.
The Minister of Oil said that the total production of looted oil until the end of February in these four years and two months amounted to 116 million barrels of crude oil.
He added that the total value of the oil looted by the countries of aggression in all oil sectors from 2018 to February of this year amounted to eight billion 202 million and 424 thousand dollars.
“The total daily and average production at the present time for the looted oil, at a minimum, is 87 thousand and 500 barrels per day, while the monthly production is not less than 2 million and 600 thousand barrels and is not less than this number” He said.
Minister Daris noted that the looted sums are supplied to Saudi Arabia and UAE, and not even to the central bank of the Saudi backed militants of the aggression.
He stressed that the damages that affected the gas and mineral sector more than 60 billion dollars, while the total losses as fines paid by the Yemeni people 161 million 660 dollars until last year in fuel only in light of the land and sea blockade.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE, backed by the United States and regional allies, launched the war on Yemen in March 2015, with the goal of bringing the government of former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi back to power.
The war has left hundreds of thousands of Yemenis dead and displaced millions more. It has also destroyed Yemen’s infrastructure and spread famine and infectious diseases there. As part of its economic war, the US-Saudi aggression worked to drain about 97% of the Yemeni state’s resources, either by controlling them militarily such as oil and gas sources, freezing Yemeni foreign assets and transferring them to mercenaries and financing coalition operations, or imposing siege on the vital port of Hodeidah and the most important port after Aden, which is still in the grip of Sana’a and out of control of the aggression.
The coalition of aggression continues to piracy, detaining fuel ships, and preventing them from entering the port of Hodeidah, despite obtaining permits from UN, which aggravates the humanitarian catastrophe due to the suspension of many vital service sectors, especially hospitals, electricity, water, cargo trucks, as well as waste trucks.