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Public servant challenges CHPA’s move to seize her property, sues State for over $10M
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CORE Home owner, Linda Persaud is suing the State for in excess of $10M, as well as several orders from the Constitutional Court.
According to court documents seen by Citizens’ Report, Persaud’s contentions are that: the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) has taken possession of her property; and that as a result she has been prevented from entering or occupying her property – both acts a violation of Article 142 of Guyana’s Constitution
The woman, of Lot 3608, Block 8, Plantation Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, claims that the debacle escalated when agents of the CHPA/Ministry of Housing last December entered her premises and erected a sign that read ‘Property of Central Housing and Planning Authority’.
The Public Servant and single mother of three daughters – ages nine, five and seven-months-old – also claims that on April 19, 2011, she purchased the home, via a written Memorandum of Agreement of Sale made and entered in the County of Demerara with CHPA.
After paying $192,000, according to her, she was given a transport and maintains that the grounds on which CHPA acted were detailed in the Agreement of Sale, which was given two years before she received her transport. “The terms and conditions of the said Agreement are not and were never made conditions of my Transport,” Persaud said in a sworn affidavit.
The woman added that CHPA’s lawyer, Hannifah Jordan, issued her a letter on November 18, 2015, citing terms and conditions in the Agreement of Sale, specifically non-occupancy.
Persaud, however, insists that she resides at the home. She added that when CHPA visited she was at her mother’s residence, in the same village. The woman stated that her mother was ill and she was away to take care of her. It was at that time that the CHPA erected a sign that read ‘Property of Central Housing and Planning Authority’.
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As such, the mother of three is seeking for the Court to issue a Conservatory Order prohibiting “servants and/or agents of the Central Housing and Planning Authority, the Ministry of Housing or any other Officer of the State from entering upon, remaining, occupying or in any manner whatsoever interfering with the Applicant’s quiet and peaceful possession, occupation and enjoyment” at her property.
Persaud is also seeking a declaration from the Court that CHPA’s actions were unlawful and have contravened or are likely to contravene her “fundamental right and freedom not to have her property compulsorily taken possession of without the prompt payment of adequate compensation” as is guaranteed to her by Article 142 of the Constitution of Guyana;