Yemen Association for Consumer Protection condemned the announcement of price doses by instruments of aggression in the occupied provinces, overburdens citizens and increases their suffering.

In a statement issued Thursday Saba received a copy, the association denounced the announcement of consecutive price doses, including the raising of the customs exchange rate and the home gas cylinder produced in Marib and the electricity and water prices for consumers in the southern governorates.

The association regretted for the apparent recklessness and disregard for Yemenis' suffering and the greatest humanitarian crisis, as described by the United Nation in the tragic conditions of consumers.. Confirming that those arbitrary measures would increase poverty and deepen the humanitarian crisis as an additional offence committed against the general consumer and its impact on them in various governorates without exception.

The statement said, "While the general consumer in Yemen is optimistic of declining prices of many goods since the last quarter of last year 2022, but it didn't last long and shock the consumer with the Government of Aden has made use of the declaration of price doses without subjecting them to the lowest standards and economic and social studies and absorbing the implications for the country".

The Consumer Protection Association regarded these resolutions as unfair, ignoring the suffering of Yemenis, with some 23,7 million people requiring humanitarian assistance including some 13 million children, the situation was exacerbated by the Russian-Ukrainian War, the resulting shortage of cereals and the high prices of food, energy, medicine and others, no action has been taken to mitigate consumers' price toll and pay all employees salaries those who have been added to the poor and taken action and means to limit the increase in poverty and improve their living and health conditions despite repeated appeals from the Association.

In the name of the general consumer, the Association called for the immediate reversal and abrogation of those resolutions in the public interest and in response to its negative and catastrophic repercussions on the general consumer, the resulting increase in poverty and deepening the humanitarian crisis of the Yemeni consumer's and further burdens on the national economy.

Source: Yemen News Agency