by: Almotamar.net - SANAA, Head of the General People’s Congress (GPC) Information Office Tariq Ash-Shami expressed Friday his regret for the Joint Meting Parties (JMP) presidential candidate Faisal Bin Shamlan, his adoption of the means of misleading the public opinion in his electoral campaign and his statements he is prompted to say.

Mr. Ash-Shami advised Bin Shamlan to put off his black glasses and abandon his melancholic sight in order to se thing in their reality away from falsifying the facts. He said in doing so, Bin Shamlan will be able to see the huge amount of accomplishments and development and services projects achieved in the homeland, tangibly felt by every citizen in Yemen. Instances of those projects are networks of modern roads extending tens of thousands of kilometers and linking the regions of the country together in the deserts, mountains, valleys and plains. Other examples of accomplishments are in the areas of modern communication networks and information technology, various stages of education, university, higher, technical and specialized, in areas of health and social welfare and many other services, as well as stabilization of security and stability in the society through building strong defensive and security institutions, that none can deny but an ingrate or blind in his insight.

Mr. Ash-Shami added we would have hoped that Bin Shamlan is not one of those ungrateful. He has to ask himself objectively and fairly about how all those achievements were realized in different walks of life, and where from they have been financed? Have they been the result of chance or dreams or illusions, or rather the product of sincere efforts exerted away from biddings and loose slogans? They are the product of investment of available mediocre resources for the funding of economic development plans and achieving services and development projects spread nationwide, so that the people benefit from.
Yemen has achieved all that under its national leadership headed by President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the GPC government despite the moderate economic potentials of Yemen and its suffering from the problems of increasing rates of population growth which devours much of available resources. Added to that the internal and external challenges and circumstances that Yemen faced, especially the particularly the apostate sedition, the war and secession in the summer of 1994, all of which cost the national economy more than $ 11 billion. As a result of those events the economy in Yemen reached to a position of collapse. Nevertheless, Yemen managed to overcome those difficult situations and improve the economic performance so that today the volume of monetary reserve in the Yemen Central Bank amounts to more than $ 5 billion and 70 million.
Ash-Shami added as for the talk of corruption it has become a monotonous tone. They who talk about corruption are known by the people as symbols of corruption and drowned in its mud, whether during their chairmanship of higher committee of government tenders, when they used to be partners of the GPC in governance or in their involvement in the scandal of stealing billions of riyals allocated to scientific institutes and used to seize them as salaries in the name of more than 18thousad imaginary teachers, non-existent in those institutes. Or when they assumed ministerial posts in the government whether in the ministry of oil or others and were fired because of their corruption they try today to cover by claming decency and arousing noise on what they call as fighting corruption. Those have to first prove the purity of their hands and r3eform themselves before giving misleading sermons to distract attention from their financial, political, intellectual and cultural corruption.
It is certain that the battle against corruption is continuous and it is the battle of everyone in the homeland. There is a national agenda for reforms the priority of which is taking measures for fighting corruption and drying up its springs. Corruption is the epidemic of the age many societies and peoples suffer from especially in the developing countries, Ash-Shami said.

Our Yemeni people are highly conscious to realize the reality of those and their intentions and are clever enough to distinguish between good and bad. The people have tried those in past periods and suffered from their failure and their corrupt and extremist approach which leads only to spread of destruction, fear and instability because those ones’ only concern is to assume power by all means. They do not care about the tragic results the homeland will face because of their adventurous and irresponsible acts.