The local authority in Hadramaut called on the Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council, Dr. Rashad Muhammad Al-Alimi, and the members of the council and the government to assume their responsibilities towards the current crisis that the governorate has been going through since the last five months.

This came during a meeting chaired by the Secretary General of the Local Council in Hadhramaut, Mr. Saleh Abboud Al-Omqi, today in Mukalla, which included members of the technical committee and directors of service sectors in the governorate, to discuss the repercussions of the current crisis on the functioning of vital service sectors, especially in the electricity sector, in addition to... Discussing the report of the governorate’s Resource Mobilization Committee.

The meeting focused on the committee’s efforts to mobilize the governorate’s resources and work to manage the crisis with those resources, and its keenness to ensure that the service sectors are not affected by it, indicating that the five months that have passed in the governorate have greatly exacerbated the situation, which portends the deterioration of most services. In the governorate, including the electricity sector, only 120 hours remained before the governorate entered complete darkness, and during the past five months it has spent all its available savings, after exhausting all its efforts in saving fuel. necessary for operation, and it tried in various ways to provide financial resources for the continuation of the service, out of awareness of its moral responsibilities before citizens, and among those treatments was that it resorted to making transfers from some public accounts with some revenue departments to pay the value of the fuel to operate the electricity generators for PetroMasila Company.

The committee for mobilizing financial resources in the governorate, which was formed by decision of the Executive Office in Hadramaut, explained in its report that the total amount required to be provided daily to cover the equivalent of 50% of the actual need for operating electricity has reached 257 million riyals, of which 125 riyals are the value of (375,000) liters per day. And 132 million riyals, the value of 240 thousand liters of diesel from Ma’rib, and I explained that the deficit in the diesel debt During the past five months, it amounted to 9 billion Yemeni riyals and five million US dollars, and the report indicated that the deficit in mobilizing these financial benefits from local revenues in the governorate and public revenues has worsened as a result of the government’s letter addressed by the Ministry of Finance No. 5/4 dated January 6, 2025 to the governorate. By not deducting financial resources for the benefit of Electricity Fuel in Hadhramaut and not carrying out the financial transfer process in favor of the Electricity Fuel account or the Yemeni Oil Company, the party pledging electricity to third parties.

The Secretary-General of the governorate indicated, during a statement to various media outlets that he made after the meeting, that the local authority was the first to welcome the statement of the Presidential Leadership Council regarding the normalization of the situation in the governorate, and that it dealt with the statement in a positive manner in a way that serves the interests of citizens and enhances the stability of basic services. In it, stressing the need for the Leadership Council and the government to carry out their duty towards the service sectors, especially electricity, and calling on the coalition countries to intervene in the electricity file, calling on the brothers on the plateau to exercise reason and give priority to their interests. Hadhramaut, its citizens, and vital services over all other interests.