The legitimate government fails its people. In more than 4 years it caused thousands of citizens to fall into the quagmire of economic collapse and services. The government is greatly criticized in a report published in ‘AdenLang.com’ news website.
The government has to explain why its ministers receive high income at a time when the country is going through death threatening hardship. "The legitimate government’s scandals are unfolding," the report said.
The incapability of the ministers to perform in the government did not stop there, they practiced at a high level of administrative and financial corruption. The first of its kind in decades.
The taxpayer paid the price for such corruption.
The liberated areas experience a near-total collapse in most services, hundreds of projects are stalled and unemployment
continues to increase.
At a time when the country witnesses all these issues, informed sources reveal that some salaries official ministers exceed expectations and nearly top the salaries of heads of several world countries.
The same sources publish official documents, issued by the Central Bank of Yemen which lists salaries paid to senior government officials. According to bank documents, the monthly wage of the Governor of the Central Bank of Yemen reaches 15 million and 160,000 Yemeni riyals equivalent to $34,000. His deputy's monthly wage is 11 million Yemeni rials equivalent to $25,500.
These figures place serious questions about the true annual salaries of ministers, agents and employees of the Presidential Palace.
The high wages which some of the special advisers receive reach to a monthly $10,000 which is paid by the Yemeni government. A wage which enables them to live in luxury abroad; an excuse for then no to return home. If those officials decided to return to Yemen they will be paid in Yemeni riyals, an amount which will be impossible to pay.
President Hadi recently appointed several advisers for some ministries a decision which enrages many Yemenis who question the importance of those decisions at a time when Yemen is going through in addition to the collapse of its economy.
Many say that the government claims that it cannot pay retirees and pensioners their monthly wages especially in the liberated areas, which means a pensioner doesn’t receive his monthly wage of fewer than $100.
At one point a pensioner died while he was queuing outside the entrance of a post office in the capital Aden. He waited for days for his wage but died before receiving it. A situation which caused widespread anger among pensioners particularly and the public in general.
The salary allocated to the governor of the CBY and his deputy has infuriated Yemenis on social media, especially with the economic crisis in the country, the widespread poverty in Yemen and the disruption of salaries of state employees for nearly three years.
AdenLang.com monitored some of the responses of pioneers, activists and media on social media. Journalist and southern activist Bassem Al-Shuaibi commented on the corruption he said: "May God curse the corruption of the legitimate government and death to all those who are still polishing their image !".
He added, ‘Why does the governor of the CBY receive 15 million riyals per month plus allowances, bonuses, grants and gifts. They are all thieves? Why does he receive that amount is it because he is rewarded for deteriorating the economy and causing the collapse of the currency or what? One minster in the government receives more than what 300 ordinary employees receive," he said.
Al-Shuaibi continues that the legitimate government is involved in meddling with the exchange rate by selling the dollar in the banks at a rate of 379 Yemeni riyals, while the dollar in the market is about 500 Yemeni rails.
The journalist and writer Ghamdan Al-Yousfi points out that the salaries of officials in Yemen should be transparent and the pay scheme should return to the 'Yemeni wages Strategy’ while calculating the exchange rate differences.
He denounced the fact that a bunch of government employees who live abroad and receive wages in dollars without performing any work, is the reason why the Yemeni file continues to be delayed and unsolved.
Sameer Al Namri said, “Every day, the legitimate government issues dozens of resolutions and appoints new agents, deputies, ministers, ambassadors, diplomats and department directors, all those who are appointed are not in the country most of them are abroad and receive their salaries in dollars."
"The soldiers of the National Army fighting at the battlefields are without salaries for months”.
“We are creating Dummies !” he said