Kuala Lumpur: Traders in Desa Pandan who have been served notices to vacate will be provided with options to trade at new sites.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department (Federal Territories) Dr Zaliha Mustafa said the nine traders would be relocated under the “Lestari Niaga” initiative currently being implemented in Kuala Lumpur.
"We will do our best to place them and provide them with facilities to resume their businesses,” she told reporters after launching a leadership, climate change & green energy programme at SMK Cochrane.
The traders were supposed to vacate the site to make way for a road widening project along Jalan 2/76 on July 15.
"I have asked the Federal Territories Department (JWP) and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) to meet them again and provide options for relocation to a new site,” Dr Zaliha added.
Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) had confirmed that the traders’ licences to trade at the site were cancelled on Jan 10.
“All traders were officially notified on Jan 15 and asked to vacate the site within the given time frame,” DBKL said in a statement on Wednesday (July 16).
On July 4, DBKL issued final eviction notices as the last step before demolition works could begin.
The demolition was scheduled for July 15, but the operation was postponed following an altercation at the site.
On the same day, The Star reported that a 43-year-old man was arrested in Desa Pandan for allegedly threatening DBKL officers with a parang during an operation to dismantle structures at the site.
