Brotherhood collections arrive for school supplies in Shabwa
SMA NEWS – ATAQ
The prices of school supplies have risen significantly with the start of the new school year in Shabwa governorate, in a way that doubled the burden on families.
Parents complained in statements about the high prices of school uniforms, stationery, school supplies and shoes in libraries.
Mohsen Al-Hajj says that he needs 100,000 riyals to meet the educational requirements of his three children, expressing his regret for the poor situation.
He points out that many families are unable to meet the basic school needs of their children.
Citizen Nasser Al-Barassi explains that he had to buy a bag for his son at a price of 15,000 riyals, stressing that the same bag last year was sold for six thousand riyals.
He blames the Brotherhood’s authority in the governorate, pointing to the absence of its supervisory role and its encouragement of merchants to raise prices with their daily taxes.
Fayez Mahyoub, the owner of a school library, attributes the high prices to the deterioration of the local currency, the payment of shop rents in hard currency, and the excessive imposition of levies on merchants and the movement of goods by the Brotherhood’s legitimacy militias.
