Employees of the Yemeni Petroleum Company have threatened that they will go on a full strike on the coming Tuesday if their demands are not met, an official of the worker association said on Saturday.The workers demand to dismiss their boss Omar Al-Arhabi who is a relative of the former Yemeni President Abdu-Rabo Mansour Hadi.
They said that the company sharply deteriorated during his period as a director of the company, accusing him of confiscating their rights.
It was reportedly alleged on Thursday that Al-Arhabi submitted his resignation to Hadi, justifying that to health reasons.
Media sources affirmed that he submitted a resignation letter to Hadi on which he claimed that he did best to maintain and develop the company and its employees.
However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
officials of the Oil and Minerals Ministry ruled out on Friday reports of the resignation, stressing that they were baseless.
Dr. Saeed Abdul-Muamen, an official of the workers association said that Prime Minister Mohammad Salem Basidnowa had accepted the resignation and tasked the Oil and Minerals Minister Hisham Sharaf to appoint a new director of the company.
Sources of the association cited that pressures were put by some authorities on the minister, and he was forced to deny the reports of the resignation.
A committee presided over by the State Minister Jawhra Hamoud along with ten representatives of the financial and oil ministries was formed with the aim of resolving the problems of the company and its employees, the sourced said.
What is recently known as the institution revolution hit many public authorities and resulted in the ouster of tens of corrupt officials, security chiefs and military commanders.