The Lethem Citizens’ Committee (LCC) is calling for an investigation into the recent distribution of Rupununi flood relief funds, with one its members, Clairmont Lye, alleging a series of irregularities in the process—including concerns about the authenticity of some names of persons who received the relief.
In a letter published in yesterday’s edition of the Stabroek News, Lye said: “To my knowledge, all the names of flood relief victims were submitted to the Regional Executive Officer (REO) by early July this year. It is therefore more than perplexing that disbursement to these persons should have taken as long as four months to be implemented, and that this exercise should just happen to coincide with the PPP/C’s public meeting on November 6.”
Lye said too that more than 100 valid names were