Almotamar.net - The Yemeni Deputy Premier for Defence and Security Affairs Rashad al-Alimi has called on the parliament on Monday to finalise the draft law for regulating carrying weapons and fighting terror, indicating that the government suffers from the problem of weapons spread phenomenon among the citizens.

Al-Alimi said, "If we leave the phenomenon armament it lead to political, social and economic problems." He added that the government has a plan for disarming people of medium weapons based on giving a grace period of six months to all citizens to give up their weapons and to confiscate them after the end of the grace period.

Al-Alimi summed up the challenges facing Yemen with al-Qaeda organization, al-Houthi insurgency and acts of sabotage in some eastern and western areas. Against that the head of the General People's Congress GPC bloc in the parliament Sultan al-Barakani said that the problem that all must admit is that in Yemen there part of the Yemenis that is not of the Yemeni state, they are who can be described as outlaws, querying the reasons why the state does not practice its authorities against the outlaws.

Commenting on the phenomenon of carrying weapons al-Barakani said a merchant has brought 300 million bullets into Yemen , and attributed the problems in the south to the economic crisis but he queried about the role of the crisis in relation to the issue of kidnapping he wondered how someone carrying a gun is considered as violating the law whereas a person moving with ten cars full of gunmen as not violating the law , saying ," We want to walk putting on our suits not carrying out rifles ," refusing what he called as deeming issues as superficial.

The ministers of interior Mutahar al-Masri and the defence Mohammed Nasser Ahmed held Tareq al-Fadli as responsible for the killing of two of security men and the injury of ten others , among them deputy director of Zunjibar , Abyan , in addition to 12 persons killed or wounded on last Thursday . He indicated that an arrest warrant would be issued by the prosecution against al-Fadli.