Saturday, Jun 22, 2013
Sharjah Police are targeting workers who distribute leaflets, pamphlets and promotional material. Officials warn that expatriate workers responsible for illegally distributing the advertising material might lose their residency permits, a move that is in line with an order signed by His Highness Dr Shaikh Sultan Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah.
In areas of Dubai, parked cars are targeted by distributors advertising spas and massage parlour services — a scourge and an annoyance. In residential buildings, one must wonder why distributors are allowed entry in the first place. Are security measures inadequate? Is maintenance poor, allowing access to strangers — even if they are armed with bundles of leaflets? Where is the building management and why is it allowing this annoyance to continue?
It’s all too easy to try and solve the problem by threatening deportation of the workers who go door-to-door, floor-to-floor. But the companies who order the production of these leaflets for distribution in such a manner also bear a responsibility.
Targeting their trade licence would perhaps be an equally effective method of stopping the madness.
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