The Prime Minister of Yemen’s internationally recognized government, Ahmed bin Mubarak, revealed during a law enforcement workshop in Aden two major corruption scandals in the energy sector and Aden Refinery that cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

He said: "I cannot understand how we spent $600 million annually on purchasing electricity while we don’t actually have electricity. And how did we spend and contract $180 million for refining oil at Aden Refinery when we don’t even have a functioning refinery?!"

Well then, how are we, as a people, supposed to understand or believe that you are fighting corruption when you are fully aware of these shocking facts about corruption in the electricity and refinery sectors in Aden, yet we haven’t seen you dismiss or hold accountable a single corrupt official involved in these two scandals to this day?

And how can we believe that you have truly saved millions of dollars by activating fuel purchase tenders and canceling purchased power contracts, when we see Aden and its neighboring areas drowning day and night in darkness and the deadly summer heat due to the depletion of fuel for power stations—while you and your bankrupt government are incapable on all levels of providing or purchasing an emergency fuel shipment to operate the stations and ease people’s suffering? All this while you boast in the media about saving those millions of dollars, which you and your supporters constantly flaunt as an achievement from canceling energy contracts and fuel tenders.

This leads everyone to ask today: Where are those millions of dollars you claim to have saved? Before continuing this performance of fighting corruption at the cost of paralyzing state institutions and services—just to cover up your total failure on all fronts, on the backs of a people who are already suffocating from every crisis and are being asked to die before they can even witness the outcomes or benefits of your so-called anti-corruption campaign, the very reason you were appointed as Prime Minister, despite having zero accomplishments or worthy stances. You’re unfit even to run a charity—so how can you be fit to lead a government at such a critical and defining moment for the country?

Why doesn’t your government use those supposedly saved millions of dollars to improve teachers’ salaries, so they can return to classrooms and reopen public schools, and save a generation drifting away from education—one that is now at risk of becoming criminal gangs threatening society, due to the vacuum, deteriorating living conditions, and the ease of being recruited by criminal or extremist groups and destructive factions?

What is the fate of the millions of dollars saved by the government from fuel tenders?!
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