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The parliamentary committee’s report assigned by the parliament in Aden for fact finding regarding (electricity-oil-telecommunication-finance) revealed the magnitude of discrepancies, breaches and faltering which characterized in the performance of the concerned agencies in various sectors, what also it caused of dangerous impacts on the financial position of the government, the various activities and the pertaining public services, clarifying that the size of corruption, faltering and the waste of the public fund in the four sectors exceeds 2.8 trillion rail.
In the electricity sector the report clarified that the budget allocated for this sector for the year 2022, is (569) trillion rail and in what its percentage mounted to 98% of the total support for the year 2022 for the suppliers, (electricity fuel, previous materials and spare parts) indicating to the cost of energy bought to electricity stations mounted to approximately 219.3 billion rail monthly; that is to say 85% of the total support for the economic units.
The report clarified that government spent more than 43.8 billion rail for the implementation of the aged maintenance of Alhaswah decayed station, in spite of its perception that there is no benefit of its rehabilitation, and it is possible to benefit from the amount in establishing a new and modern station, indicating that the state sustained losses exceeded 840.7 billion rail as differences between the diesel price and mazot during the contract period of three years, due to execution delay of mazot purchase contract signed with brizem enterprize company, the state also sustained other losses with company itself estimated at 156.4 billion rail due to the delay of the execution of the only energy contract purchased in mazot fuel for Aden electricity singed on 6 April 2022, the documentary credit was opened on 7 November 2022.
In accordance with its report, the committed observed that the stop of Alhaswah station 2 its cause is the purchase of high cost of diesel fuel and not equivalent with specifications and standardizations, observation of the raise of the total loss with very high averages, clarifying that the loss is in some governorates; Mareb 86%, Lahij 50%, and Aden 47% while the ministry estimated the average loss during 2022 with the percentage of 45% of the total available energy in Aden and the neighboring provinces.
The report confirmed that the government failure in tackling the electricity situations in Aden reduced the generation capacity to less than half of what was targeted to be repaired in accordance with announced government plans. Clarifying that the deficiency percentage in serving the current has increased to (75%) and went out what is its ratio 80% of the generation matrix recently out of work, the turning off average the electricity reached 18 hours against 6 hours turning on.
The parliamentary committee obliged the government with a list of urgent and rapid treatments that are necessary for the electricity included in the report for saving people’s life in Aden and the other governorates, and the halt of the squandering of the available resources, fighting corruption and faltering the public fund through the transformation from energy production resources of high cost to less cost resources.