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| Emirati occupation force Yemenis in Socotra to pay bills in UAE currency |
| 2022-06-18 |
| [HODHODYEMENNEWS.NET] The Emirati company, Dixon Power has asked the citizens of Socotra Island, southern Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , to pay their electricity bills in Emirati dirhams instead of in Yemeni currency. A bill issued by the Emirates electricity company revealed that it demanded the Yemeni Electricity Corporation in Socotra to pay the consumption bill at a value of 501 dirhams, including 207 dirhams in previous arrears, warning it to cut off electricity from the corporation and impose a fine if they did not comply. Through the so-called "Khalifa Foundation", the UAE has looted the generators of the Yemeni Electricity Corporation in Hadibo city, some of which were granted by the Sultanate of Oman, after its militias took control of the city in June 2019, and moved six other electric generators with cables feeding the generators from the old power station in Hadibo to the Dixam area. The Emirati company, run by an Iraqi named Yasser al-Ani, imposed an amount of 100,000 Yemeni riyals as fees on the counters of shops and residential homes in 2020. The company also replaced Yemeni meters with its own electronic ones, and imposed an amount of 225,000 Yemeni riyals per meter in August 2021 on the homes and shops of citizens. The UAE ensured its military control over the Socotra archipelago, which is far removed from the military confrontations in mainland Yemen, in 2016, under the pretext of humanitarian actions by the Khalifa Foundation. |
| Posted by:Fred |