Sultan Al-Samei's Statements... And a Witness From Among Them Showed Their Corruption and Subordination to the West
The News:
In an interview broadcast by Al-Sahat channel on Sunday, August 3, 2025, Major General Sultan Al-Samei, a member of the Supreme Political Council in Sana'a, made a series of shocking statements, most notably his admission that the Supreme Political Council is a mere formality and does not have actual decision-making power, and that they are even unable to stop a single corrupt person, even though corruption is practiced openly and managed by higher authorities. He pointed out that more than $150 billion had left the country, and people had turned from barefooted to owners of companies and agencies. He confirmed that Sana'a is security and intelligence-wise penetrated, and that economic decisions are taken against the interests of the people and drive out national capital. He called for a comprehensive national reconciliation because a decade of war had not produced a victor, saying: "We did not enter Aden, nor did they enter Sana'a." He also considered the decision to execute Ahmed Ali Abdullah Saleh, the son of the deceased, a politically mistimed decision that increases division and does not serve reconciliation.
Comment:
These statements are not surprising to those who have realized the reality of the existing political situation in Yemen, but rather a clear acknowledgment that those who rule are not the Supreme Political Council or the local forces, but rather those who stand behind them from regional and international forces, who draw policies and manage conflicts to keep the nation in a spiral of destruction, poverty, and division.
The admission by a member of the Supreme Council that they do not have the power to make decisions, nor can they confront corruption, is a testimony that sovereignty does not belong to hidden entities that disrupt the will of the nation. The talk about national reconciliation and the sharing of power and wealth is a repetition of the failed democratic approach that has only produced quotas, conflict, and failure.
The solution is not reconciliation between factions, nor is it the distribution of wealth among the warring parties, but rather the establishment of the Rightly Guided Caliphate on the Prophetic method, which unites Yemen with all Muslim countries under the banner of creed, governs by God's law, cuts off the hands of the corrupt, and restores the stolen sovereignty.
Whoever admits that the council is a formality should not continue to falsify the will of the people or participate in enabling a false reality. The fact that the council is a formality, that corruption is managed from above, and that the decision is not in the hands of those who are supposed to rule, is a clear declaration of the absence of sovereignty, the loss of governance, and the failure of the existing political project, whether in Sana'a, Aden, or other regions of Yemen. Yemen today is but a miniature image of the reality of the entire Islamic nation. Therefore, the solution must be radical, not a patch-up, which is to restore sovereignty to the nation through the establishment of the Rightly Guided Caliphate on the Prophetic method, which makes authority for the nation, sovereignty for the Sharia, and governance according to what God has revealed, not according to what is dictated by Western capitals, or the pressures of the United Nations, or dirty money deals!
The Caliphate is the only one capable of uprooting foreign influence, breaking political and economic dependence, holding the corrupt accountable no matter how high their positions, recovering the nation's looted money, and uniting Yemen and all Muslim countries into one entity, not divided by sect, tribe, or geography, and building a strong, productive economy based on self-sufficiency, not on conditional aid and usurious debts, and moving armies to support Gaza, instead of letting it die on the crossings or shouting in international forums!
As for those who insist on staying in the quagmire of worn-out regimes, and on selling illusions to people with terms of reconciliation, partnership, and quotas, they are contributing to the perpetuation of corruption, the consolidation of agents, and the deepening of the nation's wounds. Either we rise up to establish the Caliphate, or we remain slaves under the rule of the insignificant, tools of the infidel West, awaiting a black fate from which nothing will save us except the return of Islam to the seat of power. God is the one whose help is sought.
Written for the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir Central
Abdul Mahmoud Al-Ameri - Yemen Province