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April 12, 2012
Yemeni government said on Thursday
that a new sabotage attack took place targeting the supply power lines
providing the Yemeni capital of Sana'a with electricity in Jaadan area in Marib
province, where the main gas-operated power station is based.
"The first circuit of the
electrical transmission lines Marib-Sana'a was subjected to a fresh sabotage
attack today around 11.am in Marib," reported the official Saba news
agency citing a high-ranking official in the General Electricity Corporation.
The saboteurs threw the lines with
an iron chain connecting the power isolated lines, and thus forcing Marib Power
Station to be out of service with all its capacity, the unnamed official
explained.
Meanwhile, the power was blacked
out again in Sana'a with residents complaining about the bad management of the
power lines, which are subjected frequently to attacks since the outbreak of
protests against ex President Ali Abdullah Saleh long rule, by the concerned
authorities.
Ahmed Ali Al-Badoui told Yemen
Post, "we hold the authorities responsible for the repeated attacks on
power towers and lines as they are responsible for protecting them from any
saboteurs."
"Since last year, we have
heard of hundreds of attacks on the vital service transmission lines, but we
did not hear, even for once, about the saboteurs being arrested and be severely
punished for their crimes," he continued.
Last month, the electricity minister
Saleh Sameih directly accused Saleh of being behind the attacks and demanded
Saleh and other powerful figures pay the owed power bills.
Source: Yemen Post
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