I am an old fan of Al-Saqr Club, and I witnessed the first official match at the club’s stadium. I know how I chose Al-Saqr to support without anyone recruiting me, or knowing its sporting history from Majzoub.

Taiz showed its greatest loyalty to the Yemeni state and to its head of authority, who belongs to this governorate as his birthplace, through long lines of welcomers, in a scene that Taiz has not witnessed for a long time.

I have never been invited to meet a senior official before. I do not like events that are dominated by praise and glorification. I am confused. My presence is necessary and important. If the president wanted us to hear from him, he would not have invited us. We will hear him on television. He wants to hear from us, for us to discuss the pending issues with him.

No one disputes the historical importance of President Dr. Rashad Al-Alimi’s visit to the city of Taiz, in light of the stressful security situation due to the presence of the coup plotters and their camps on the outskirts of the city.

What the local authority is doing, starting with Governor Nabil Shamsan and down to the smallest employee, to prove their worthiness before the Chairman of the Leadership Council, indicates a huge imbalance in the structure of the local authority, its value system, and its legal and constitutional duties.