SIBU: The High Court here yesterday accepted an application from native traders in Kanowit who filed a suit against Kanowit District Council (KDC) for not allowing them to trade at their old place.
The suit was filed by five of the 140 traders. They were represented by See Chee How.
See, who is also Batu Lintang assemblyman, told reporters later that the affected traders were taking legal action as the council has prohibited them from trading at the old site.
The other members of See’s team are Jeffery Mok and Chai Peh Chen.
“The traders actually moved to the new site three months ago as instructed by the council. However, business was so poor that only 20 of them remain at the new site,” he said.
The council, he said, had issued them new trading licences valid till December this year but they had moved back to the old place.
“Then on March 4, the council instructed them to move to the new site again as it wanted to let out the old place to a trading company. This has affected 140 native traders,” he said.
See said the council had in fact wanted to build a new bus terminal at the new trading place but the project had yet to take off.
The native traders, he said, had been trading at the old place for the past 50 years.
