RUC pressurising businesses
Businesses in Keady, Armagh, are complaining that the RUC is trying
to pressurise them into cooperating with them.
Sinn Fein Councillor Brian Cunningham has been contacted with a
number of complaints from local business people about a new forum
which the RUC claim to be setting up. The RUC have contacted
businesses in the area to try and get them to participate in the new
forum which they say is designed to inform them of how the RUC can
help the local businesses.
However some business people in Keady, which is 98% nationalist,
believe that the RUC are in effect blackmailing them, believing that
if they do not participate they will have to endure harassment of
themseves and their businesses by the crown forces.
The proprietor of Carna service station, a small business in the
area, has said that he has lost trade due to the actions of the RUC
and the British army who regularly intimidate customers by setting up
checkpoints at his premises, stand in the doorway blocking customers
from entering the premises, and drive through the service station's
yard at high speed endangering the lives of customers.
Councillor Cunningham has asked other business people in the area to
contact him so that he, as the local public representative can
represent their concerns.
Condemning the RUC tactic as underhand he has called for ``a policing
service that would have the support of this 98% nationalist town and
this means the discredited sectarian RUC must be replaced''.
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