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Lands and Surveys Commission sells woman’s house and land
Naimoon Neisha standing in front of her broken house.
A 61-year-old woman is now wondering where she would sleep tonight, after the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission sold her house and land to someone else.
Naimoon Neisha told Kaieteur News that she has been living at 40 Parika, East Bank Essequibo for the last 41 years.
However, she explained to this newspaper that she has been in Venezuela for the past 15 years; but during that time, she has been frequenting Guyana on a regular basis. She says that she had employed a caretaker to take care of her house during the time that she would be away.
Neisha noted that she returned to Guyana in September, only to find that both her house and land were sold to someone else by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission.
She noted that, in 1995, she had applied to the Commission for possession of the land, but never got it and was never given an official explanation why she was never granted ownership of the land. Kaieteur New understands that the community was once a squatting area and it recently become regularised.
Neisha says that after she found out that the land was sold to someone else, she visited the Lands and Surveys Commission to query the matter, and was told by officials there that the property was no longer hers.
To compound the situation, the woman’s house was demolished last Monday, and she is now asking for some amount of compensation for the structure.
Kaieteur News was told that the businessman who bought the land has since offered the woman $300,000 for the land, and has even offered to buy her a new house lot.
However, Neisha has refused it since, according to her, she has not been officially approached by the businessman with this offer.
She told this newspaper that even if the businessman was to offer her that amount officially, she would not accept it since she spent more than $300,000 to construct her house. The businessman is, however, now the legal owner of the land.
The woman is now blaming the Commission for selling her land, despite her living there for more than 40 years.
Efforts made by Kaieteur News to contact the officer in charge of the Lands at the Commission proved futile, as this newspaper was told that the officer was in a meeting and would return a call. However, up until news time, no such call was returned.
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