Yemeni official: Militants polarized jobless people

Director of Social Affairs and Labor Office in Sana’a Naguib Al Fatesh revealed that the number of displaced people in the Yemeni capital jumped to three million citizens, saying that the number is strongly increasing, as the city’s population declined to only five million citizens living in critical conditions due to the current conflict witnessed in the country.

He added, in a statement to “Arabs Today”, that the Yemeni labors, working in public or private sector, have been strongly affected, as the governmental employees have not received their financial dues for the recent four months.

He added that the office received a large number of complaints related to demobilization of employees in different companies, saying that a large number of companies decided to lay off their employees due to the financial position witnessed in the country.

He added, “Over three thousand employees in the Yemeni capital lost their jobs since 2015 due to the violent actions witnessed in the country.” He blamed the current violence for the increasing deterioration on both economic and social levels in the country.

He added, “The militias operating in Yemen, whether Houthi, Qaeda or popular resistance, managed to polarize a large number of those people who left their jobs, while others turned to leave the country seeking for a better life.”

Regarding to the governmental role to contain the crisis of the Yemeni citizens, he said, “I do not know what is happening in this regard, while it is the responsibility of the government to provide the basic services to the citizens, including water, electricity, education, and health.”

He signaled that over thousand factories and companies have been closed since the beginning of the current conflict, stressing that they have no accurate statistics to explain the current position in the country. He called the conflicting parties in the country to move seriously to achieve peace during the coming period to contain the negative repercussions of the war.