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Zone 32 drivers accuse minibus assoc. chairman of fraud
Some of the drivers who are making the allegation.
By Rabindra Rooplall
Bus drivers of zone 32 are claiming that the chairman of their Minibus Association is carrying out fraudulent activities each day.
According to Vincent Paul who professes to be Vice-Chairman of the association and bus driver, the Chairman, James Kandial, called Coinsil and Papaya” is soliciting monetary contributions for each trip from each of the buses that works zone 32.
He said that the association was formed 2006, and a chairman was chosen along with a secretary, treasurer, assistant treasurer, Vice-Chairman, and committee members. However the original persons who held these designations have relinquished these posts and have moved on.
He is accusing the “self appointed chairman” of misusing the organisation for his personal benefit.”
Paul said that the chairman placed “warders in the three parks at which the buses work…and they collect $120 for each trip that is made by a bus from town to Parika, $100 from Vreed-en-Hoop to Parika, and $200 from Parika to town for each trip every single day. Two of the men that collect are Robert Allen in Vreed-en-Hoop and Lambert in Parika.”
Paul said that no one officially appointed Kandial as chairman of the association, however, he collects money on a daily basis. “No one know what he is doing with it; we are being defrauded.”
“We have 90 buses that work the route 32 and about three trips are made by each bus and he collects money for each trip,” another bus driver, Farouk Alli said.
The group of drivers collectively agrees that the alleged chairman and his workers have a special relationship with the police; and they are afraid to report the issue to the police. “If they feel to lock we bus up they call the station and they have their people lock up our bus we get charged and pay a fine in court”
However, Paul said that there was a meeting with the Minister of Home affairs last year in his boardroom. Kandial and the warders were there. Many complaints were lodged of the monies that were being collected, but in the meeting Kandial “lied to the Minister about the money being collected… No receipt is given.”
The group of drivers is making an appeal to the Minister of Home Affairs and the Guyana Revenue Authority to investigate what they say is the fraud that is being carried out on a daily basis.
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