MPAJ officers advising stall operators to cease business in accordance to the MCO. Subang Jaya police has set up roadblocks to make sure the public follow the movement control order. KUALA Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) will not issue summonses to traders selling food along sidewalks. Instead, enforcement officers will send them packing right after handing them immediate closure notices.The closure notices are a directive for them to cease business at once.Traders are also reprimanded in a polite but firm manner for violating the movement control order (MCO), before being asked to go home.Kuala Lumpur mayor Datuk Nor Hisham Ahmad Dahlan said it was not easy for enforcement officers to carry out their duties during this period.“Having to tell people who have lost their jobs, elderly folk or single parents... anyone who is simply trying to earn a decent living out there not to do business, is not an easy task. But it must be done,’’ he said.“This is now a security and safety issue, and it not only involves Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia, but the whole world.“Everything we do now will have an impact sometime, somewhere down the line, so we have to do things right.“My job is to keep people safe and in order to do that, my men have to get people off the streets and into their homes,’’ he added.Nor Hisham said he went to the streets on the first day of the restriction order and saw many traders still operating on the roadside.“I was at the Penchala area and an old makcik approached me, pleading to be allowed to continue selling food.“I told her she must go home, that it is only a temporary measure.

Source: The Star March 20, 2020 02:08 UTC