A big cover up in Region Two

Mar 20, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
Recently, several of our daily newspaper carried a story of larceny of fuel from the Region Two Drainage and Irrigation Department. A drum containing about fifty gallons of diesel was dropped off at a rice farmer’s yard, by two employees.
One of them was an overseer; the other, a driver of the tractor/trailer on which it was transported. This fuel was either sold or intended to be sold, to the rice farmer.
My understanding is that a report was made to the Regional Administration who investigated, and recovered the article (fuel) from the farmer’s yard, after the two employees from D&I Department admitted to selling the farmer the fuel. They were both dismissed.
I, as a member of the Regional Democratic Council representing the Alliance For Change, at the last meeting of the Council held on March 13, 2012, asked why this matter of simple larceny and receiving stolen property, was not reported to the Police, so that all three persons could face the full force of the law.
Because from what was told or said to us the Councilors at that meeting, I having served as a member of the Guyana Police Force during the seventies until permission was sought and reluctantly given for me to leave, believe that if this report was made to the Police, after diligent investigation, the employees would have been charged for simple larceny because the act of receiving is always a more serious crime than stealing.
As it turned out, the Chairman and the Vice-chairman are of the view that by dismissing the two employees, they have taken the right decision. Both of these gentlemen have also refused to disclose the name of the rice farmer in whose yard this drum of fuel was found, although I asked that this farmer name and address be mentioned to us.
However, the man in the street is now saying that this rice farmer, whose name and address is a heavily guarded secret, is a close relative of a senior Regional Official.
I am not in a position to confirm or deny this, but even if it’s true, I will not be sure if that may be the reason why the Police were kept out of this matter, which we all know is a very, very serious one.
It is difficult or may be even impossible to convince not only me, but many others out there that the Regional Administration took the best action. Because it is totally unfair for three persons to have conspired together and committed a crime, you punish two and protect the other, or you allow the other to go smiling, singing and whistling.
Archie W. Cordis
AFC Councilor
Region Two

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