Region 5 administration denies victimising PPP
DREO of Region 5
Sherwyn Wellington
DREO of Region 5 Sherwyn Wellington

THE regional administration of Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) has denied allegations that it is victimising the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) controlled Bath/Woodley Park Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) in the region by deliberately delaying their efforts to activate and access their bank account.

The NDC accused the administration of doing so and pushing the body into “a state of lockdown,” to the extent that its staffers were unable to get their salaries for the past two months.
The NDC said that it had made the request to the Ministry of Communities in a letter dated January 17th last. It cited this situation as another example of victimisation by the regional administration.

Deputy Regional Executive Officer Sherywn Wellington, yesterday, acknowledged the delay but explained that it had occurred in the first instance, because of  a typographical error in a letter sent to the  bank  by the Ministry of Communities (MoC) in which NDC Chairman Krishna Sewlall was advertently referred to as Ms. Krishna Sewlall – a gender mix-up.
The bank rejected this letter from the MoC and the NDC was asked to submit another letter with the correct gender for Mr. Sewlall.

The NDC had complied and the MoC had sent the second letter to the bank with the name Krishna Sewllall, the name which had been sent by the NDC in the first  instance.
The bank had however rejected this second letter, stating  that even though the gender was correct,  the name was yet still  incorrect since Mr. Sewllal’s full name was Krishnamurti Sewllall and this was required by the bank to accept him as a signatory to this NDC account.

Wellington said that the NDC then sent a third letter to the MoC and the final correction was made in their third and final letter to the bank.
The account was expected to be activated yesterday as a final resolution to the mix-up.
Wellington stressed that, “the regional administration had at no time whatsoever sought to delay the activation of the account of the NDC, nor victimise the body in this manner or in any other way.”

He pointed out that in 2018, the administration expended $45M in developmental works in the Bath/Woodley Park NDC and that this expenditure could hardly support a conclusion of victimisation by the regional administration against that NDC.

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