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$60M house…Wordsworth’s wife, her mom are the buyers
– husband seek to hide relationship
Chief Executive Officer (ag) of National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA), Lionel Wordsworth, has denied any involvement in the purchase of a $60 million house in Bel Air Park, which this newspaper highlighted as having been bought by an Accounts clerk.
“The article made defamatory inferences about me, in my personal and professional capacity when it published my photograph with the article,” Mr. Wordsworth stated yesterday.
He added, “I unequivocally state that I was not involved in any negotiations for any purchase of property which was owned by John Willems as the article suggests.”
Mr. Wordsworth admitted to some involvement as a civil engineer. “I gave my professional opinion on the state of the building to the then prospective purchasers.”
It turned out that the “then prospective purchasers” were his wife and his mother-in-law.
Kavita Ramdihol (how the woman signed the transport), a former accounts clerk attached to the Guyana Oil Company, according to her former employers, joined the company on July 2, 2002 as Chabedevi Kavita Ramdehol.
Guyoil said that she resigned on November 12, 2008 as Chabedevi Kavita Wordsworth, having petitioned the company to change her name from Ramdehol.
A copy of the transport stated that the sum of $60 million was paid by August 27, 2008. The transport also stated that it was passed on February 2, 2009 following a check that the property could be sold on January 16, 2009.
By the time the transport was passed Ms Ramdehol was already using the surname Wordsworth, even when she sought and was granted a visa by the Canadian embassy in Georgetown.
Mr Wordsworth, in his statement yesterday, declined to announce that the purchasers were his wife and mother-in-law, referring a query on the relationship to his lawyer.
“This was deliberate since the authors and publishers of the article are on a malicious campaign to bring disrepute to me in my personal and professional capacity.
“I demand Kaieteur Newspaper and Prime News retract the story and issue an apology.”
Editor of Kaieteur News and of Prime News, Adam Harris, said that there would be no retraction.
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