Yemen Monitor/ Newsroom:
Today, Sunday, the handover process took place in Aden, the temporary Yemeni capital, between the new and former directors of the Tax Office. This comes after a crisis witnessed in the city between the head of the government and the Governor of Aden against the backdrop of the appointment decision in the revenue office—a decision whose implementation had been stalled for more than two weeks.
The management of financial resources sparked a dispute between the head of the Yemeni government and the Governor of Aden.
The local authority’s media in Aden stated that Governor Abdulrahman Sheikh met with the new director of the Tax Office, Mohammed Ahmed Al-Fadhli, and the former director, Abdul Hakim Moawen, following the official completion of the handover procedures, and in the presence of the Governorate’s Undersecretary, Mohammed Saeed Al-Moflehi, as a representative of the local authority supervising the process.
According to the local authority’s media, the Governor praised, during the meeting, the efforts of the office’s previous management and what it provided in terms of improving revenues and developing financial and administrative performance.
The Governor considered that the job rotation process comes within the framework of strengthening institutional work to raise the level of performance, stressing the importance of ensuring the smooth transition of duties and coordination between the Tax Office and relevant authorities in a team spirit to develop local resources and improve tax collection in the city.
The Attorney General, Judge Qaher Mustafa, had previously issued a mandatory arrest warrant against the former Director General of the Tax Office, Abdul Hakim Moawen, following his refusal to handover his duties to the new director, Mohammed Ahmed Ubaid Al-Fadhli, based on an official complaint submitted by Prime Minister Shayea Al-Zindani and the Minister of Finance as a result of the handover procedures being stalled for more than two weeks.
