100 billion riyals monthly salaries paid by the government of Hadi to employees and military personnel
English - Wednesday 27 November 2019 الساعة 03:19 pm
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An official source in the Central Bank of Yemen in Aden said that the wage bill and salaries paid by the legitimate government to government employees and residents in the areas controlled by it, displaced employees, the army and security, amounted to 100 billion riyals per month.
The source said that the salaries of the army and security account for 40% of the total wage bill and salaries, amounting to 40 billion riyals, the majority of them are new military personnel.
The legitimate government does not pay salaries to about 600,000 employees working in areas controlled by the Houthi militia, because the Houthis refused to supply the revenues of the areas under their control to the Central Bank of Aden.
Hadi's government disburses the salaries of employees in nine governorates under its control, al-Jawf and Taiz governorates received partial salaries, as well as the salaries of judicial officials, the Central Organization for Control and Accounting, health and higher education staff, and retirees in all Yemeni governorates, with salaries delayed for some months.
In 2014, the wage and salary bill in Yemen was about 75 billion riyals per month, of which 50 billion riyals for civil servants and 25 billion riyals for military and security personnel.
Economists have warned of the dangers of overstretching the country's administrative and military apparatus, resulting from absurd appointments to senior positions in the state, and the illusory jobs in the national army established over the past four years, to development in the coming decades and the depletion of state resources.
The Islah Party, the branch of the Muslim Brotherhood Organization in Yemen, is accused of bringing about 250,000 new employees into the national army's lists, 70 percent of them with high salaries and high salaries of 100 to 300,000 riyals per month, tens of thousands of fake names, in addition to appointments of hundreds of thousands of employees. In addition to administrative apparatus of the State.
The total number of state employees at the end of 2018 was estimated at 1.6 million, 400 thousand new employees were employed in the military and civil service of the state during the past four years, and thousands of others have been appointed to the diplomatic corps of the state.
