Yemeni officials of the Electricity Ministry uncovered on Saturday plans to detonate the gas-run Marib electricity station, pointing out that the plans might have completely destroy the station.
The officials told the state news agency, Saba, that the joint operation room that includes the interior, defense and electricity ministers got information about plots to blow up the station.
Yemen's electricity supplies have been damaged many times since the eruption of the eleven-month-old protests. Yemen have lost billions of rials as a result of recurring attacks against electricity lines.
The Yemeni army bombarded last week the house of an oil pipeline saboteur, Mohammad Kalfoot, who was among those saboteurs accused of targeting electricity in Marib governorate. Media sources said that Kalfoot responded to the military's bombardment with targeting the electricity towers, leaving a number of Yemeni major cities in darkness. Yemeni officials and analysts accused the former regime led by Ali Abdullah Saleh of supporting those saboteurs who target power lines.Electricity shortage had led to the paralysis of factories, laboratories, workshops and many service sectors, pushing further Yemenis to unemployment particularly in 2011.In late November, the Military Committee formed under the GCC-crafted power transfer deal has approved using of helicopters in the hunt of saboteurs. However the attacks against electricity lines and oil pipelines have increased since the beginning of the current month.
Power stations in Yemen are still unable to meet the demands of Yemenis while stations located in Marib are frequently subjected to sabotage acts that suspend them from time to time.