Services and Responsibility of Taiz Residents

The current actions of the local authority reveal a great responsibility that falls on the shoulders of the city’s residents, requiring every individual in every neighborhood, alley and street to put real pressure on the local authorities at all levels to provide services to the residents, hold them accountable and monitor them day and night, and force them to carry out their duties in accordance with the constitution and the law, as well as in accordance with what they need in their lives, in a way that enables them to live in security and dignity.

The real blame for the scandal that is hitting the local authorities these days, who have suddenly appeared with their actions in the streets, lies with the residents, especially their elites of lawyers, journalists, community leaders, mosque imams, university and institute professors, and merchants, who have remained silent about the humiliating life they have been living during the past years of the unjust siege, while the local authorities enjoy taxes and luxury for them and their families in exchange for the misery of millions of residents besieged in the city.

There are signs that have appeared on social media of serious popular and individual movements, but they are not institutionalized and not effective enough to continue. For example, what activists are doing in the “Taiz from the Bottom” campaign, which exposes road collapses and poor conditions in the city, is good. It has been effectively monitoring what the authorities are doing for more than a year, and has achieved several successes in the past, despite its simplicity. These days, it has reappeared to publish the work of the local authority and its officials competing in front of the media, under the title of the patchwork campaign. However, this situation must be developed to become a real institution that has the ability to adopt the interests of the street and confront the local authorities. It is known that officials with such humiliation will not be able to confront a popular movement and will submit to responding to the demands of the street or they will be forced to leave their positions.