State of science

From the rule of the liberated Republic of Yemen with its land and people to small squares in some areas, such as the Al-Mawasit Directorate, where Sultan Al-Barkani stands in the neighboring Al-Ma'afer Directorate as a bulwark against it.

From managing, activating and developing the institutions of an entire state to only caring about the revenues of some small institutions, Rashad Al-Alimi’s rule is shrinking and the republic and institutions of a state for which the Yemenis have worked for a century are disappearing.

Al-Alimi’s weakness, meanness, and enormous suffering from his brothers Aidarous Al-Zubaidi and Abu Zar’ah Al-Mahrami, both of whom are members of the Leadership Council and lead the Transitional Council that was publicly established to destroy the republic and secede, and others, are combined with a similar situation experienced by the Minister of Interior in Aden, who has absolutely no value there and does not feel that he is a minister with a say that is heard except in the Immigration and Civil Status Authority in Taiz.

Therefore, he agreed with Al-Alimi in personal characteristics, and in their feeling of enormous helplessness in their positions in front of a force like the Transitional Council, even though they serve it day and night. They imposed organizational matters and organizational procedures with no goal other than to say: We changed some procedures and imposed our orders in Taiz, including that no transaction will be accepted for any citizen who wants a passport except with a personal ID card, and that Taiz passports themselves will not accept the issuance of a new passport.

It is said that Al-Alimi’s philosophy is that the military forces that confronted the Houthis are treated by Al-Alimi as if they do not understand the philosophy of the state, and he prefers to work with the old guards like Jamil Aqlan, the commander of the Special Security Forces (Central Security), whose members are not present in Taiz except to guard some revenue institutions like the Passports Department. To be honest, experience seems to be available as you see the Special Security members carrying many files for passport applicants, competing with the Passports Department employees.

This achieves two things: First, Al-Alimi’s decision to replace the director of passports in Taiz was implemented by force despite it being against the law, according to passport employees. Second, it extracts huge revenues from the pockets of the citizen who is crushed by poverty. If you want a passport within two weeks, you have to pay no less than 200 Saudi riyals.

As you enter the Taiz Passports Department - where Rashad Al-Alimi has proven the validity of his orders by appointing another from his village to prove to him and his village that he has truly become a president - there are many competing to offer you their services, looking into your pocket. Money is paid without bonds, and as for documents written with fees, they are paid at double their value, like the previous passport data document. The employee there said in response to the question, "Where is the bond?" Every customer in front of you paid the amount. When I asked him, "Is it Al-Alimi's country?" He proudly pointed and laughed, "Yes."

In the state of Al-Alimi and Al-Aloum in Taiz Passports, you see passport officers beating the clients with sticks and even threatening to tear up the transaction papers and documents and break their hands, when they feel insulted if you refuse to order them to pay the papers and money for him to sign your paper, especially at the peak of the passport issuance season associated with Umrah and the revival of work in Saudi Arabia. Taiz is supposed to cover, and it is already doing so, the need to issue passports for neighboring governorates such as Ibb, Dhamar, Sana’a, Hodeidah, and others, but its technical capabilities remained as they were before the war, designed to serve only a group of directorates, despite the huge daily revenues for years.

In the wise state of science, they raised a sign that reads: “Do not give your file to anyone, citizen, and do not pay money except to those you trust.” So when Rashad Al-Alimi came to Taiz a few months ago and visited the College of Medicine, he talked about the experience of one of his daughters, Jamila, in fields related to medicine and in facing the economic crisis. He talked about his daughter Fatima and her foundation, Ne’ma. In oil sector No. 5, documents talk about one of his sons. He trusts them, but he, his ambition, his dreams, and those around him, are limited to answering one question: How does he employ or employ his children?