Compiled by C. ARUNO and ASHLEY TANG
MORE than 400 traders, especially those selling clothes at Pasar Siti Khadijah in Kota Baru, Kelantan, have appealed to the state government to consider exempting rental payments for their shops to ease their burden following the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic,
Sinar Harian reported.
The market’s bumiputra traders association president Ahmad Nazri Che Omar said more than 200 clothes traders on the second floor of the market had lost their source of income for the past year.
“All of us survive on the sales at the market. We do not have other jobs. When the shops closed, we did not have any means to pay the rent.