Flooding in Taiz: Residents waiting for compensation [Archives:2004/768/Local News]

Effects of the flooding in the Saleh district, when high water flow caused much damage to homes and property in the proximity of the Taiz-Sana'a taxi station, are still being felt by locals of the area. Two years ago Judge Ahmed Abdullah al-Hejri, the Governor of Taiz, formed a tribunal to assess the damages and set up the measures for compensation. After considerable difficulties Mr. Muhammad Mansour Muhammad, Mr. Sadeq Abdullah Rajeh and Muhammad Saleh finally obtained the compensation allotted by the Public Works Office but since then, no one else affected has received any payment. During the last visit to Taiz of the President, the residents headed for the Republican Palace gate and delivered their reports and appeals to the officer-in-command of the President's guard. They hoped that he would transmit their appeals to the President Ali Abdullah, so that he might instruct the payment of the anticipated compensation. But regretfully, the reports have not yet been returned. Chasing up their initial requests, the residents were eventually told that the reports and the appeals had been dispatched to the President, in Sana'a.
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