By Mohammed al-Kibsi
In its meeting on Tuesday, the cabinet ministers ordered to finding a proper way for providing diesel for farmers across Yemen. This decision was in response to reports over the sharp raise of prices of all vegetables and other food stuff.
Prices of most food stuff and essential things for living were tripled. Potatoes price increased by 200 percent. Tomatoes raised by 300 percent.
Farmers related the raise of their products to the lack of diesel and to the increase of diesel prices that were tripled in the past two months.
Many farmers stopped farming or producing vegetables, fruit or any products as a result of the sharp increase of diesel.
Ahmad Hasan, a teacher in a public school in Sana’a province said that he and his kids have one meal daily because he couldn’t afford more than that.
He added that he hasn’t received his salary for last month yet. “What should I do? Shall I go begging?, asked the poor teacher.
He also said that yet he hasn’t enrolled his kids in schools because he didn’t have money to enroll them.
“I hear about the Back to School Campaign sponsored by the UNICEF and other donors and wonder for what they spend the large amount of money” said Hassan.
“I’m a teacher and know well that I have to enroll my kids and that it is time to back to school but how can I pay for their fees, uniforms and copybooks, pens and other school requirement,” said Hassan.
“My Salary is not enough to feed them”
Mohammed Humaid a landlord from Sana’a said that he did not receive his rents from all people that are renting his properties for the past 5 months because all of them complain that they do not have enough money to eat.
Many ordinary people that did not get used to beg started begging on the streets of Sana’a.
Water and electricity corporations keep sending messages to cell phones urging citizens to pay their bills.
Residents in my neighborhood said they haven’t paid their bills for the past 6 months.
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