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Mar 30, 2017 Letters
Dear Editor,
Reading the news headline ‘Communities Minister sacks Linden Town Clerk with immediate effect’ left me to conclude that this was clearly a mistake in terms of which Town Clerk’s appointment was being revoked. This Town Clerk was cleared of any wrong-doing recently as documented in the conclusion of a recent Commission of Inquiry (COI). So what did she do to warrant this type of treatment?
Did she subject her town to the bondage of a controversial and elusive Parking Meter contract? Did she give hundreds of millions of dollars to her friend in cleaning contracts in breach of all tender and bidding procedures?
Did she engage in massive forms of nepotism and cronyism by hiring scores of her friends and family and giving them super salaries with no work to do?
Did she travel around the world first class wasting millions of dollars with nothing in return? Did she surround herself with a retinue of bodyguards and other staffers at a huge cost? Has she ever tendered bounced cheques to her Treasurer’s Department, illegally waived outstanding interest owed by defaulting ratepayers or taken huge loans and salary advances without repaying them? Was she in the habit of dining at fancy hotels and charging the Council? Has she suddenly become a multiple property owner? Did she ever disrespect the Minister of Communities? Did she ever show contempt for the Deputy Mayor or the vendors? I think not. So why is this Town Clerk being treated like this?
Sambu Jacobus
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