Brotherhood seeks to control Yemeni jobs via qualification of loyalty 

Mustafa Kamel

The Brotherhood in Yemen, operating under the cover of its political party Islah, is using the qualification of loyalty to fraternize and control jobs in Yemen, which has led to a series of administrative and economic disasters that Yemenis say they are still paying for.

Loyalty first

The terrorist Brotherhood in Yemen has worked for a decade to raze public jobs since its participation in power following the outbreak of the Arab Spring in 2011. Appointments, decisions and files in the sectors controlled by the Brotherhood are proceeding according to the principle of loyalty, with widespread appointments based on party and organizational affiliation, in the biggest breach that Yemen knows.

The governorates of Shabwa, Taiz and Marib witnessed an unprecedented wave of bulldozing of public jobs and administrative positions in light of the Brotherhood’s incursion into the joints of the government and local authorities. The local authorities loyal to the Brotherhood in the governorates of Shabwa and Taiz deprive the unloyal administrative offices of financial budgets and deliberately sabotage them.

The exclusionary practices of the Brotherhood come within its political agenda for absolute control over power and money in the country. The demolition of jobs has become one of the ways and means of empowerment practiced by the organization and practiced by political Islamist groups, especially the Brotherhood, where the Brotherhood in Yemen has always sought to dominate public office whenever the opportunity arises, without taking into account either competence or eligibility, but rather the basic criterion is loyalty to the Brotherhood and trustworthy people from its political trend.

Abandoning laws and regulations

Analysts denounced the Brotherhood’s persistence in abandoning laws and regulations, dismissing distinguished cadres to make room for Brotherhood elements. They stressed that the group there is exerting intense pressure to empower itself within the security institutions, in parallel with suppressing political opponents in the name of fighting outlaws, imprisoning their opponents, and stopping newspapers that do not follow them in order to prevent any dissenting media voices.

Observers of Yemeni affairs said that the Brotherhood’s control over government institutions resulted in a significant drain on financial revenues, and that the Islah party had tampered with state functions in an unprecedented manner, as it sought to betray all jobs in the south. They stressed that despite all this, the Islamist movement did not possess the ability to manage the interests of the people, burdening the economy with debt and failing miserably to achieve any real accomplishments on the ground.

Observers point out that after the Arab Spring, the Brotherhood appointed its supporters to high-ranking positions in the state, taking advantage of its control over the legitimate government. They added that the remnants and resurrection of the Islah party are impossible to get rid of in a short period of time. Rather, the country needs many years to reform what was corrupted by the party, which claims to be righteous but is far from it