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Every religion teaches that people should honour their parents, but that is not the treatment that 67-year-old Gopaul Singh received from a close relative last week.
The homeless father, Gopaul Singh, who has no where to go and nobody to turn to.
Singh, who fathered six children, is now living on the streets after allegedly being evicted from his home at Hagi Street, Herstelling, East Bank Demerara.
According to neighbours in the area, the man’s son built “a little shed” in front of his residence for his father to live in.
But last Thursday, the son allegedly paid an individual to lift his father from the shed under the pretence of bathing him, then began to “rip the shed apart.”
The old man was reportedly taken approximately one street away and placed at the corner of a drain where he is forced to sit, day and night, in the sun and rain.
He is somewhat disabled and on Saturday, last, when a Kaieteur News reporter visited Gopaul, he was seen with a stick, “trying to limp” his way to his sister’s yard, a great distance away.
Mr. Singh claimed that his son does not treat him properly.
Gopaul stated that even though he is on the street and his brother and son live a few houses away, they have disowned him and have left him for dead.
Kaieteur News was told that Singh has a sister who lives overseas. She is in Guyana on a short vacation and has been supplying his with meals.
One troubled neighbour asked, “When his sister go back, what will happen to him?”
“His brother got a big house here and he come back from Canada. Why can’t he let he sleep in the yard?”
Yet another explained, “He work hard, hard in his days as a cane cutter just to send his children to school and look how they repay they father.”
Gopaul, with tears in his eyes, said that his daughter, Sharmilla, attends the Herstelling Assemblies of God Church and she gives him food a few times.
A few neighbours suggested that either the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security “force his children to support him” or help him get some type of shelter.
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