KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 18 — The government has been urged to establish a special committee to monitor foreign workers who run businesses in the vicinity of the Kuala Lumpur Wholesale Market.
Deputy Youth and Sports Minister Datuk M. Saravanan said the committee should comprise officials from the police and Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), and representatives of the wholesale market committee.
“This committee must monitor and control the influx of foreign workers who conduct businesses either illegally, or by renting from traders who have a licence,” he told reporters during a visit to the wholesale market, here, today.
He was asked to comment on the uproar caused by fights between the Indian community and migrant workers from Myanmar at the wholesale market, which had resulted in one death last week.
Sentul district police chief, ACP R. Munusamy assured that a thorough investigation was being carried out on the incident, and hoped the locals did not take the law into their own hands.
“Eighty police personnel have been deployed to control the area around the wholesale market, and we have already detained 75 people to facilitate the investigations into several cases that occurred last week,” he said. — Bernama
