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Fatah: establishing Baihan Corps a military decision doesn't affect Shabwa's geographic and administrative structure

[18/03/2018 12:04]

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Minister of Local Administration—Chairman of Supreme Relief Committee—Abdulraqeeb Fatah has confirmed that the presidential decree about establishing Baihan Corps is a military resolution pertinent to the ongoing combat operations with the putschit forces, it has nothing to do with administrative division of Shabwa province.

In statement to the Yemeni News Agency (Saba) Fatah made clear that Local Authority Law clearly set out rules and provisions of constituting the provinces and the subsidiary districts of each province, thereupon separate any district or annexing it to another province is governed by specific conditions and procedures shall be followed.

The Minister stated that the province of Shabwa has its own geographical and administrative structure consisted of 17 districts will never be influenced by this military decision.

Fatah advised activists and media men and women to read the Local Authority Law, and be careful of rumors and disinformation; urging everybody to stand alongside the political leadership headed by President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi in countering the putschit militia and misleading media discourse aiming to distract public attention from focusing on the real danger of Houthi militia and its own sectarian scheme.