Al-Jaadi: We will not abandon October 14 Press Institution staff  as corrupt will not return to it

Mr. Fadl Mohammad Al-Jaadi, Deputy Secretary-General of the Presidency of the Southern Transitional Council, met on Thursday, with the editorial, administrative, union and financial leaderships of the October 14 Institution for Press, Printing and Publishing.

In the meeting, Al-Jaadi was briefed on the latest developments in the institution and its leadership’s previous attempts to return to its management despite the corruption and looting of public funds that are following them.

 Al-Jaadi said that the Transitional Council: "It carefully monitors the violations against the Riyadh Agreement and the parity government and the aggression practiced by some on the institutions of the South, including what happens in the prestigious October 14 Institution."

Al-Jaadi added, "There are ministers in the government who came to Aden to create unrest and protect the corrupt and looters of public money, and the prime minister must stop this."

Al-Jaadi denounced the selectivity practiced against those who stood with the will of the people of the South and the Southern Transitional Council before agreeing on the government, and the attempts to cover up corruption.

Al-Jaadi stressed that the Council will not abandon those who stood with the causes of the people and protected the property, including the October 14 Institution, and that whoever plundered it could not return to it.

Al-Jaadi emphasized that the Council has the ability to confront such violations that are practiced against the Riyadh Agreement at all levels, and it prevails the voice of reason and wisdom.

He noted that stopping payment of the salaries of workers and journalists at the October 14 press Institution and fighting them for their livelihood is an illegal and immoral matter, and that work is only cowards do it.

At the end of his speech, Al-Jaadi praised the efforts made by the journalists and workers of the October 14 press Institution to produce the newspaper in a national and professional shape before it has been stopped, stressing that it will return and in better way after the institution gets rid of its corrupt leadership and the corruption lobby that follows it.

For their part, the attendees appreciated the Transitional Council’s standing by the rights of workers and its support for them against those trying to take revenge on them as a price for their positions with the Council and its national policies aimed at achieving the aspirations of the people of the South and protecting their wealth and institutions, including the October 14 Institution.