30 April 2018 - 04:13
Scandal: Fugitive Mansur Hadi appoints Saudi national as deputy governor of Yemen's Maharah

Pro-Saudi self-appointed “president of Yemen”, Abdrabbuh Mansur al-Hadi, has once again sparked outrage, this time with a decision to appoint a person who does not have Yemeni citizenship, to the position of Deputy Governor of one of Yemen’s provinces.

(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Pro-Saudi self-appointed “president of Yemen”, Abdrabbuh Mansur al-Hadi, has once again sparked outrage, this time with a decision to appoint a person who does not have Yemeni citizenship, to the position of Deputy Governor of one of Yemen’s provinces.

According to political sources used by the Yemen Press Agency, the self-declared leader of Yemen since 2012, who is in reportedly living under some sort of house arrest in Saudi Arabia, has appointed someone named Hadi Ein Saleh Mohammed Saeed, a Saudi citizen without Yemeni nationality, to the position of Deputy Governor of Mahrah province in the far east of Yemen.

Some observers have stated that such a decision, which runs against Yemeni laws and customs, would be made in the interests of the Saudi petroleum industry, which is reportedly making plans to construct a direct oil pipeline from Saudi Arabia straight through Yemen to the Arabian Sea, thereby bypassing both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf.



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