DEPUTY Mayor of the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC), Patricia Chase-Green has accused Town Clerk Carol Sooba of “fraud”.

But she later said she is challenging anyone with doubts to take up the matter in a court of law.
Chase-Green called a press conference in her City Hall office yesterday, when she claimed that Sooba has misappropriated $500,000 of the Council’s money.
“An action was filed against the Ministry of Local Government and its Minister Ganga Persaud, to show cause why his decision to appoint Sooba should not be quashed. Sooba paid for the services of a lawyer in full, a matter that has nothing to do with the M&CC,” Chase-Green charged.
The Deputy Mayor maintained that it is most inappropriate for Sooba to expend such a large amount of funds for her personal use.
“She cannot be trusted to handle the Council’s money, if she is going to spend it for her own use. This is not the first time. She, once, carried out sanitary works in her yard with council’s money,” Chase-Green charged.
She said the matter will now have to engage the attention of the Auditor General.
Meanwhile, when contacted yesterday, Sooba told the Guyana Chronicle: “If they think it is illegal, let them challenge it in a court of law or let them write to Government and have me fired.”