Bigger business, robust network: Why local traders feel DBKL ban won’t root out ‘illicit’ foreign market traders | Malay Mail

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Bigger business, robust network: Why local traders feel DBKL ban won’t root out ‘illicit’ foreign market traders

A general view outside the Kuala Lumpur Wholesale Market in Selayang June 24, 2020. ― Picture by Hari Anggara

Wholesalers lined both rows of shops as fresh produce was displayed on the front, with the rest stored in the back or on makeshift freezers to keep the produce fresh. “The Federal Territories minister doesn't know that every day when City Hall conducts their checks they are paying more attention to people working inside the market premises but not outside.

The government had put areas surrounding the market under the enhanced movement control Order to conduct mass Covid-19 screenings of the 16,000 in the area, 90 per cent of whom are foreign nationals. “Despite that you will see forklifts going around outside carrying items to their stalls. Their business is bigger than ours,” claimed another vendor who wished to be called Lim.

According to S. Subramaniam, a lot of the farmers are foreigners like Bangladeshis, and they work closely with their community, especially those working in the farms and markets. “Some of the foreigners who own stalls here, even lorry drivers mostly Bangladeshis, are very rich. They pay higher than the market price so the farmers sell their produce to them rather than to the locals. They know the flow of the business,” Wong claimed.

On June 18, Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said that there are still undocumented migrants trading in the vicinity of the market, but there are none within the premises itself.

 

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