The Muslim Brotherhood of Yemen was unable to bring Shabwa to its knees militarily, so they resorted to tampering with the electricity file in the governorate, taking advantage of their control over the oil facilities in Marib as the last card of their political blackmail.

After putting down an armed rebellion carried out by a number of military and security leaders loyal to the Brotherhood's Islah Party in Ataq, in mid-August, the Brotherhood began to systematically prevent and cut off fuel tankers coming from the Safer refinery in Marib, which is intended to supply Shabwa Governorate (south).

A Brotherhood war of another kind led to power outages and the suspension of some power stations due to the exhaustion of diesel, in an effort to thwart the efforts to establish security and stability led by Shabwa Governor Awad Ibn al-Wazir.

An official source in the Yemeni Ministry of Electricity and Energy attributed, in a statement to Al-Ain Al-Akhbar, the frequent power outages in the city of Ataq and Shabwa districts, to the authorities’ cutting off the supply of government fuel to the southern governorate in Ma’rib, noting that this began after the failure of the armed Brotherhood’s rebellion.

The quantities of fuel allocated to electricity in Shabwa alone amount to about 80,000 liters, which are transported daily by a truck from the state-owned Safer Company in Marib to the city of Ataq, the capital of the Arabian Sea governorate, but recently, Brotherhood-backed hands have emerged blocking the trucks.

Two official sources in Ma'rib and Shabwa told "Al-Ain News" that one of the supporters of the pro-Brotherhood tamper is called "Ali Saeed bin Jalal" from Ubaidah, and he is behind the interruption and preventing trucks loaded with fuel and designated for electricity in Shabwa Governorate, the last of which was a tanker that was prevented today, Friday, from traffic before it is confiscated.

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According to the officials, the man is engaging in gang activity, as he kidnapped the fuel truck coming from the Safer Company as it crossed towards Shabwa and forced it to unload its cargo at one of the Marib stations without the security services in the Brotherhood-controlled governorate deterring it or providing protection for the trucks’ passage, which indicates a systematic war .

The Brotherhood is trying to exploit their control of Marib, which includes the Safer oil and gas facility, to cut off both fuel and electricity and use it as a political weapon to pressure the governor of Shabwa, who overthrew their military and security corruption system and plundered the governorate’s oil and gas wealth.

A blockade of fuel

The Brotherhood of Yemen previously stood behind the war of services in the liberated areas outside their political and military influence by tampering with electricity, as its extinguishing leads to widespread popular congestion in coastal cities with high temperatures in a humanitarian crime that trades in people’s suffering.

According to the director of the Yemeni Oil Company's branch in Shabwa, Ahmed bin Fahid, the governorate is living like a targeted siege operation that targeted a total cut off of the fuel supply, despite the directives of the Minister of Oil and Energy in the Yemeni government and the Executive Director of the Yemeni Oil Company.

The director of the Shabwa Oil Company branch accused his counterpart in Ma'rib, who is loyal to the Brotherhood, of practicing a series of obstacles and arrests for the allocations of Shabwa governorate of fuel, including electricity and gasoline belonging to the governorate.

The Yemeni official confirmed that despite the continuation of the siege from Marib and the ban on diesel electricity, the governor of Shabwa, Sheikh Awad bin Muhammad al-Wazir, directed not to cut the power at any cost, and efforts will continue until the government grant.

This came in a series of video clips that bin Fahid published on social media to clarify public opinion and the population in Shabwa governorate, referring to what he described as a "suspicious and systematic trend to cut off the electricity and prevent the passage of trucks from Ma'rib" after the recent Ataq events, in reference to the Brotherhood's rebellion.

emergency intervention

The governor of Shabwa had submitted an urgent request to the Yemeni Prime Minister, Maeen Abdul-Malik, to purchase an emergency quantity of diesel for the governorate’s electricity a few days ago, as one of the solutions to drop the Brotherhood’s bet in trading in people’s suffering and comfort.

Subsequently, the Yemeni Prime Minister, Maeen Abdul-Malik, directed the Ministers of Electricity, Oil, Minerals and Finance to purchase 5,000 tons of diesel as an emergency quantity for the electricity of Shabwa Governorate, given the total darkness in the governorate.