Major General bin Brik chairs joint meeting of Self-Administration Committee and Economic Team of the Council

The Chairman of the National Assembly of the Southern Transitional Council, Chairman of the Self-Administration Committee of the South, Major General Ahmed Saeed bin Brik, chaired on Tuesday, in Aden the capital, a joint meeting f the Self-Administration Committee and the Transitional Council's economic team.

The meeting stood before a group of issues and files on its agenda, the most important of which are the recommendations of the economic team presented to the committee, for the services file, and the mechanisms of monitoring and supervising the follow up of the implementation of Self-Administration.

The meeting discussed the recommendations of the Transitional Council's economic team on the urgent procedures and measures for the financial and economic policy, and the mechanisms for collecting resources and revenues, and the spending process to meet services obligations and community requirements in light of the reality of Self-Administration announced by the Transitional Council, and approved a set of decisions and assignments directed to the relevant competent authorities.

For the file of services, mainly the files of electricity and water, Dr. Abdel Nasser Al-Wali reviewed a report that included an explanation of the efforts that were made to restore the electrical system with its full generation capacity, after entering the Al-Hiswah station and the rented stations into service, in addition to an integrated overview on the amount of the inventory of the stations and ways of securing sufficient stock to cover the need of electrical stations during the coming period.

Al-Wali also gave a brief explanation on the current water situation and the efforts being made to ensure its stability to be reached to the people in all the districts of the capital Aden.

The meeting discussed the draft plan and mechanism for the process of monitoring, supervision, and follow-up of government institutions and facilities, which will be assigned to specialized teams of competencies and administrative and union personalities known for integrity to follow up and ensure the implementation of self-administration in the capital Aden and its districts, and the rest of the southern governorates, in which the meeting approved the referral of this project to the Legal Committee for review, formulation and return for approval and implementation.

The meeting decided to open the door for the possibility of increasing the members of the economic team and the use of economic and accounting cadres and competencies to facilitate the team's work and benefit from the experiences and specializations in the economic, financial and banking sectors.

The meeting stressed on the importance of joining the efforts and make everyone responsible, foremost among them are the cadres and competencies of the Transitional Council and the South in general, to carry out their duties to meet the aspirations of the citizens who place their hopes on self-administration to provide them with a better and decent life, despite the heavy legacy of administrative and financial corruption, and systematic tampering in the capabilities and resources of the country.

The meeting pointed out that all the challenges facing the southerners to administrate their region require a strong will, high determination, and the solidarity of all benevolent and loyal to this country for success and achieving the desired goals.