KUALA PERLIS: Residents in Pulau Ketam near here have expressed concern, especially for their safety, with criminals turning the fishing village into a transit port for smuggling ketum leaves to a neighbouring country. “Some teenagers are willing to quit school because of the lucrative income paid by the ketum boss. “Their job is to carry sacks filled with ketum leaves on motorcycles in the wee hours or midnight from an illegal jetty to a house which is used as a transit place before the sacks of ketum leaves are smuggled via land or sea to a neighbouring country,” he said. “Sometimes I cannot sleep, hearing the sound of the motorcycle engines of the smugglers, especially when my husband is not home. — BernamaArticle type: metered User Type: anonymous web User Status: Campaign ID: 18 Cxense type: free User access status: 3

Source: The Star September 05, 2020 00:10 UTC