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Mother of 13 among squatters for removal from private property
Some of the structures on the private property that will have to be removed
An East Bank Demerara woman and her 13 children have until Saturday to demolish a property they erected on a plot of land at Friendship that is owned by a private company.
Fareeda Angad had constructed her home on the government reserve, a few feet from the private land after she was forced to vacate another government reserve at Cuffy Dam, Friendship, to facilitate revetment works a year ago.
But then she began encroaching on the private property when she first erected a chicken pen and subsequently another house on the property for her son.
She claimed that she was unaware that the plot of land was private property.
This angered the owners of the land who yesterday took steps to have her remove the additional structures within three days.
Yesterday, the owner of the land, who had bought the property in 1992, moved in with the police even as the woman and her family were taking additional materials to continue their encroachment.
Speaking to this newspaper, yesterday Angad said that she was asked to remove her house from its original location on the northern side of Cuffy Dam, Friendship, East Bank Demerera, when the Drainage and Irrigation Authority began revetment work on a canal there, late 2007.
She said that she was advised to reconstruct her . home on the other side of the dam a few feet from the private property and was even assisted to do so by workers attached to the D & I Authority.
“The dam end up breaking away and we had nowhere to go. I put in for…land at Housing and never got a reply.
After the land was washing away, dey (D & I) end up putting me hey. Dey give me permission; dey help move me place,” Angad told this newspaper.
She admitted that she began developing the land by erecting a chicken pen and a house for her eldest son and his wife, since she claimed that she did not know that the property belonged to someone other than the government.
“Now the person come and tell me I gat fuh break down and move… and move me fowl pen and so.
It gone cost me a lot but I got to find somewhere,” Angad stated.
She estimates that she has spent more than $1.5M in all to maintain her dwelling and it would cost her much more to relocate.
She is hoping that the Ministry of Housing will acknowledge her request for a house lot and provide her with one soon.
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