| – angry residents allege over half the funds not accounted forBy Leon SuseranResidents of Adelphi, Canje, Berbice are outraged at the exhaustion of $1M given by President Bharrat Jagdeo to carry out works on the Adelphi playfield, including building a pavilion.According to Yadram Berai, representative of a group of irate residents who summoned the media to the scene on Tuesday, $1M has been used up on just a fence that was built around the playfield.Berai said that the president agreed to give $1M to the residents after they approached him in 2007. The money was then dispatched through the Region Six Administration in 2007, with the Canefield-Enterprise Neighbourhood Democratic Council being the facilitator of the project, with residents consisting of males who played ball at the playground, lending their labour for the project.The monies were supposed to construct a fence, upgrade the ground of the playfield and build a modern pavilion. The residents said that just a fence was put up on the site.“I ask Mr Zulfikar [Mustapha] concerning the million dollar; he tell me that the money already finish. I been last year; I go back this year and I call he a night on the TV; they had a programme on the TV. I called and explain to he. The man tell me the money finish. When I ask the Regional Executive Officer, he tell me that the money done,” Berai said.The resident said that the NDC was in charge of the materials and that they purchased the materials that were supposed to be used to build the ground and pavilion.The residents showed Kaieteur News an estimate given for the building of the fence. The items are:140 posts- $112, 000; 500BM board- $72,500; 12 rolls 4inch mesh- $108,000; 20 lbs 2 ½ inches nails- $1200; Workmanship- $70,000—all for a total of $363,Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply,700. The residents concluded that $636,300 is unaccounted for.The REO of Region Six, Bhadase Poonai,Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply, said that in 2007,Cheap Jerseys USA, the region received $1M to upgrade the Adelphi ball field. He added that the region has vouchers totaling $997,China NFL Jerseys,300, to prove that purchases were made.He said that $11,050 was used to purchase hollow blocks; $429,750 to construct the pavilion, and $556,500 to purchase lumber for the ground.“There was provision to construct a pavilion; that was never done. We will have to lodge an investigation. The project was under facilitation of the NDC. They took responsibility to supervise; [the] materials are there (at the NDC),” Poonai told Kaieteur News.“We have vouchers to show $997[000] was spent; we’re still to verify what happened to the lumber purchased for the pavilion. [I] can’t say if the material is still with the NDC, because this was since 1997. I have a list from Canefield –Enterprise [NDC] showing me [the] list of materials purchased,” the REO said.He promised to launch an investigation into the NDC’s use of the materials to construct the pavilion and to do other works on the ground.When the Chairman of the Canefield- Enterprise NDC,Andrew Benintendi Jersey, Jagdesh Phagoo, was contacted for comment, he said that he is not aware of much of the details in the matter, since Parmanand Beepat—now deceased—was Chairman of the NDC in 2007.Phagoo said that when he took over from Beepat, he asked Poonai for vouchers to examine the programme.“After the previous chairman died, I did follow up this matter at the Regional level with Mr. Poonai, who was supposed to provide me with vouchers to show what was purchased. He was to give we but he did not give we. At one time he told me that the chairman who died had the voucher. When I do find out, the voucher was in the Region,Nike Air Max Wholesale Australia, because they do the project,” Phagoo said.Phagoo went on to say that almost half of the items that were supposed to be used to build the pavilion at the Adelphi ball field and which were stored at the NDC, were used to build a bridge and on other projects in the Canje area. |
