Establishing an independent telecommunications company removes the masks of the Brotherhood in the government
تاريخ النشر: 4th, September 2023 GMT
The objections launched by prominent leaders of the legitimate government against the establishment of an independent telecommunications company in the capital, Aden, revealed the reality of the masks behind which those leaders hide to serve the Houthi project and its continued control over the most important revenue sectors in Yemen.
The attacks reached the point of calling for an investigation with Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik and those in charge of the Ministry of Communications. Under many signs and hangers, including "forfeiting the sovereignty of the homeland and national security" and other accusations behind which there is a hidden agenda aimed at disrupting any efforts to liberate communications from the Houthi grip and restore the most important state revenues to the treasury of the Central Bank in Aden.
The increasing intensity of the objections among the legitimacy wings revealed the real and hidden "Brotherhood" masks that penetrated inside the legitimate government. Although government assurances confirm that the next company will be a partnership between Aden Net and the UAE's NX, and that it will be under the supervision of the Yemeni Ministry of Communications in the capital, Aden.
Far from government assurances, however, the Brotherhood attacks focused only on the identity of the partner company - the UAE - which strives to provide its services in order to liberate communications from the grip of the Houthis, and return billions of riyals to the revenues of the legitimate government that needs to develop its financial resources in light of the economic war it is waging. Houthi militias.
The latest objections came from Interior Minister Ibrahim Haydan, who sent a letter to the President of the Presidential Leadership Council announcing his objection to the establishment of the company. He provided a number of justifications that revealed the true face of the minister, including not giving him a copy of the agreement, and that it affects national security and national sovereignty, and it is the same slogans raised by the Brotherhood leaders, including members of Parliament, media professionals, and Brotherhood activists.
Minister Haidan's message revealed the Brotherhood's motives behind his refusal to end the Houthis' connection to communications in the liberated areas. Especially since the minister is one of the members of the government that discussed in several meetings the issue of ending the monopoly of communications in the hands of Houthi, who exploited this sector to develop his financial resources and fuel his war, in addition to espionage operations, surveillance operations, and the implementation of military targets against legitimate government and military leaders, including the government plane itself on its return to Aden International Airport. .
For his part, writer Moheeb Al-Jahafy believes that the continued association of the telecommunications company in the south with the communications organization that is under the control of the Houthi militia poses a great threat to security and stability in the future, adding: "It is well known that the Houthi militia relied on the communications system in military operations more than it relied on means For this reason, it worked to enhance its penetration into the communications network and the Internet, eavesdrop on the phone calls of the southern leaders, monitor its movement, and reveal its military secrets and field operations.
He pointed out that the Presidential Leadership Council and the Arab Coalition sensed the importance of a communications system free from the control of the Houthi militia, and this is confirmed by the continuous blessings of the leaders of the Council for the establishment of an independent communications company in the south to secure communications and find resources.
He explained that some of the Brotherhood’s masks affiliated with the government came out by issuing farcical decisions that renewed their categorical refusal to establish an independent communications company in the south, to make it clear in the end that they are mere tools in the hands of the Brotherhood and the Houthis to serve their political agenda in the lands of the south, and that their presence in those important ministerial portfolios constitutes more danger from the threats of the enemies of the south.
He pointed out that the joint coordination between the Brotherhood and the Houthi militia in the relentless and failed effort to obstruct the implementation of the communications project was evident in the frenzied campaigns in the media of both parties.
The servitude reached the point where the Houthis pushed their tools of legitimacy to come up with shaky decisions refusing to establish the company and presenting justifications for maintaining Houthi control over Yemeni communications.
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