About Nabil Shamsan and Al-Alimi

For about two weeks, Nabil Shamsan has been staying in Riyadh, hoping to meet his weak and submissive boss, Rashad Al-Alimi, to submit a report of achievements with several papers that only Nabil himself knows about. He claims that he achieved them in Taiz under Al-Alimi’s direction six months ago, but he has not met him yet.

Nabil Shamsan embodies one of the most prominent general characteristics of those in power today: he understands very well that Rashad Al-Alimi is helpless, weak, and without energy or ambition. He is satisfied with his presidency of the Leadership Council by a few trips at the government’s expense, which he exploits completely, and does not return from one trip except for another. Sometimes, these trips do not end except with expulsion, as is said about his last visit to Germany, in the name of a security forum there, but the truth, as those who know him say, is that it is an inspection visit for his investments there, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars.

As for Shamsan, the venerable governor of Taiz, who refuses to be dismissed or resign from his position, and who equally strongly refuses any work in it, except collecting and spending revenues and establishing investment projects abroad, like his president Al-Alimi, this is the state with its established traditions and its living model, Al-Alimi.

Nabil Shamsan's position on the people is identical to Al-Alimi's position. The people have nothing to do with the legitimacy of their rule and administration, and there is no popular will that can stand in their way. There is no place even to answer questions about what they are doing and how much they are looting, because in their view the people are minor, stupid and deceived. There is no respect for those who do not demand their rights, and they did not force them to do anything. That is why he claimed a few days ago, late at night, perhaps under the influence of staying up late and qat, that he had submitted his report to Al-Alimi.

He believes that the people and the popular movement against him and Al-Alimi have ended, especially with the beginning of Ramadan and the end of the educational process that has been bothering them for the past months.

While no one knew when Al-Alimi returned from Germany to Riyadh until he flew back to Cairo. No one was happier than Nabil Shamsan on these trips. He will not meet Al-Alimi, and if he did, he would mock him and make him believe that he had achieved everything for him in Taiz, including his strict directives to the security forces to suppress teachers and protesters in Taiz who were demanding the departure of the two men from their positions.

Between Rashad Al-Alimi, who is content with controlling some revenue-generating institutions such as Taiz Passports through one of his relatives, and Nabil Shamsan, their partner in looting those revenues without any right, the people of Taiz are suffering the bitterness of the Houthi siege and the Houthi war against them, and the war that the two men are also waging against the people by cutting off services and allocating them to merchants who pay them in exchange for their silence, such as electricity, water, fuel, and others. The two men are launching a series of levies that have reached the point where Shamsan has invented levies on the Mansoura quarries adjacent to his village, to disrupt the endless work on the Hejah Al-Abd road.

The image that Nabil Shamsan and his boss Rashad Al-Alimi paint about the Yemeni state is the worst model of states ever throughout history: disrupting everything and restricting street movements by buying the positions of effective and influential leaders of social, political, union and economic organizations.

In light of this extremely miserable situation for the people of Taiz, there is no choice but to revolt against them and against the entire existing system. It is easy for everyone to overthrow this gang that they lead, at least in Taiz, and it will be a prelude to a popular movement that includes all of Yemen.