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Seeking to abuse political affiliation
Dear Editor,
I am highlighting some problems we are encountering with an activist of the ruling party in Mahdia, who came to live here about one year ago and who most of the residents here consider a menace or a trouble maker.
The first thing bad thing this guy did was when he realized that there was gold in his backyard he start giving permission to dredge owners to carry out mining activity in his back yard, which is against the mining laws since that area falls within the landing area.
He was doing this under the pretext of desilting a creek which he claimed is responsible for flooding where he is living.
The truth of the matter is this guy built a camp in the swamp and the only reason for him building his camp there was to collect sand from the creek ( since he doesn’t buy good sand) to make concrete blocks to sell.
I am 65 years old and I have been living and mining for over 45 years in Mahdia, and I always knew that area to be flooded when the rain falls. What is also alarming is that despite the amount of high land in and around Mahdia this guy opted to built a camp in that swampy area.
He is giving the authorities the impression that flooding is due to mining activities and that he needs to desilt the creek, when in fact he actually wants to mine there. I remember some time last year when the Minister of Local Government and the Minister of Amerindian Affairs were there at a meeting he was claiming that due to flooding thousands of persons were affected, their farms were destroyed and livestock died. He even claimed that that over 300 bags of his cement were destroyed.
When he was asked by persons to show where these farms was destroyed and the cement that he claimed was destroyed to date he cannot show them because all are lies.
I later learnt that after this guy did not get through to mine the land under the pretext of desilting the creek, so he applied for a special mining permit to carry out mining on the land which clearly shows that from the first place his intention was to mine the land for the gold and not to desilt the creek.
Should this activist be granted a special mining permit by the GGMC to mine this land which is in the landing area and which falls under the control of the RDC this would be setting a bad precedent that will have serious repercussions. Other persons will apply for special mining permit to conduct mining in their backyards.
I believe that in the best interest of the community the GGMC should not grant any special mining permit to this guy. I believe that the time has come for us to put politics aside and work in the best interest of the Guyanese people.
Allan George
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