
By Reem Al Daaysi
AN angry landowner blocked off a busy thoroughfare because he hadn’t been compensated by the authorities for turning his property into a public road.
The protesting Bahraini, who blocked off the ‘bottleneck road’ in A’ali, was summoned by the Northern Municipality to clear away the plywood he had placed blocking access, a council meeting heard.
Area councillor and Northern Municipal Council’s information and public relations committee chairman Hussain Al A’ali confirmed that part of the private land had been used as a public road.
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