SUKKUR, March 18 Citizens, representatives of various trade bodies and activists of political and social parties took out a procession and held a demonstration at the clock tower roundabout here on Thursday in protest against the transfer of the Sukkur DCO.

Led by president of the Sukkur small traders body Haji Mohammad Haroon Memon and Shahid Malik, they took out the procession carrying banners and placards from the wholesale cloth market.

Shouting slogans against the Sindh government and in favour of DCO Abdul Majeed Pathan, they marched on the main thoroughfares of the city and reached the roundabout where they held a demonstration and staged a sit-in.

Addressing protesters, speakers strongly criticised the Sindh government for transferring the DCO who according to them was working round the clock for uplift and betterment of Sukkur. They said the DCO eliminated encroachments which were mushrooming in the city for 30 years.

They said that since his posting in Sukkur last year, the DCO was taking care of the cleanliness and beautification of the city and was taking keen interest in the early completion of mega drainage project which was lying incomplete for three years.

He had shifted the cattle pans out of the city, which was the demand of citizens for 25 years, he said adding that he had also ordered shifting of the iron market and grain market out of city.

They threatened with widespread protests if the government of Sindh failed to cancel his transfer orders.