Mr. Fadl Muhammad Al-Jaadi, member of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, Secretary-General of the Council’s General Secretariat, and Mr. Ahmed Hamid Lamlas, Minister of State, Governor of the capital, Aden, today, Wednesday, laid a wreath of flowers in front of the memorial plaque at the site of the martyrdom of Major General Jaafar Muhammad Saad. The former governor of the capital, Aden, on the eighth anniversary of his martyrdom.

At the event, which was attended by Mr. Abdo Ali Al-Naqeeb, Assistant Secretary-General, and Engineer Nizar Haitham, Chairman of the Youth Authority, Surat Al-Fatiha was read to the soul of the martyr and his companions, and prayers were prayed for forgiveness and mercy for them.

The Secretary-General indicated that the martyr Jaafar made the greatest sacrifice for the sake of truth and justice, and was a symbol of courage and faith in the cause of the people of the South and a loyal leader whose fingerprints are attested during the liberation of the capital, Aden. He bore the responsibility of managing the capital under difficult circumstances, and gave his life as a price for his heroic stances after If the hands of treachery and terrorism reach him.