DBKL: no restriction against lorries delivering vegetables to the market

Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has clarified that there has been no restriction on lorries delivering vegetables from Cameron Highlands to the city wholesale market during the control movement order.

The DBKL's clarification is in response to the Malaysiakini's article on Cameron Highlands farmers dumping hundreds of tonnes of vegetables due to restrictions on traffic and marketing operating hours.

"According to the police, in enforcing the order, they never blocked any movement of those under essential services including the food supply sector.

"Lorries carrying vegetables use Jalan Kuching and would enter the market without having to pass the nearest roadblock located in front of Sri Murni police station.

"This means there's no restriction at all against the lorries," the statement reads.

DBKL also explained that the market's consortium has sufficient workers to load the vegetables and good.

"There is no issue to say that the vegetables couldn't be loaded from the lorries."

However, it stressed that 448 stalls in the market were asked to reduce the number of workers to prevent the market from being overcrowded.

DBKL also noted that due to the order which led to the closure of operations from various sellers such as those from the night market and the roadside, the demand for raw materials like vegetables have decreased.

"Therefore, the issue of oversupply of raw materials such as vegetables is not caused by the lack of workers or roadblocks but contributed by other factors," it said. - Mkini