By Mohammed Al A’Ali
A 12-MONTH ultimatum is set to be issued to relocate 100 sprawling scrapyards which pose an environmental and health hazard and sit on crude oil worth millions of dollars in Askar.
The Southern Municipal Council general secretariat has recommended the go-ahead for an urgent proposal by its chairman and area councillor Bader Al Tamimi, adding that the issue required immediate attention after a recent inferno.
However, it will require a vote from council members in their first meeting of the last term next month to give it the power of law.
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