‘Will not tolerate extortion’: MCCI

Mokokchung, June 18 (MExN): The Mokokchung Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI) on Friday asserted that the business community in the district will not tolerate extortion in the market.

It alleged that some “gun toting scroungers” are “trying to pillage the market and loot innocent, hardworking, productive citizens – the business community” at a time when Mokokchung as well as the whole world is fighting the pandemic and barely keeping the wheels of economic activity in motion.

It took strong exception to the audacity of some ‘national workers’ demanding tax during these trying times and said that it will not be tolerated one bit. “Numerous factions are coercing the traders to pay ‘tax’ these days while some are vying to levy ‘item wise tax’,” the MCCI stated.

It further asserted that Mokokchung is a formal market and “not a board game”, adding that the business community of Mokokchung under the banner of MCCI will not tolerate extortion in the market. “The general public may consider this as prior information that MCCI will rather shut our businesses than pay extortion,” it said. Police and law enforcing agencies should not be caught off guard, it added.