Kwakwani to continue pressing for IMC’s removal

Residents of Kwakwani are set to continue their protest action against the recently installed Interim Management Committee (IMC) even as stallholders on Friday refused to pay their rentals to the person identified as the chairperson of the IMC.

According to resident Kelvin Daley, on Friday, the woman visited the market and requested that stallholders pay their rentals and when they refused, she locked the market. On Saturday- a normal market day – the residents opened the market and set up their stalls and later met with the regional vice-chairman, Byron Lewis, who told them they had done nothing illegal since the IMC was illegal.

During that meeting, it was also revealed that the security