A Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice mother is claiming wrongful arrest and detention by the police at the Fort Wellington Police Station, who she said kept her in custody for several hours on Sunday, while her three children including a one-year-old who breast-feeds, were unattended.
Nazeema Mohamed told this newspaper that she was held from around 7 am and kept there until 5 pm even though she pleaded with the detective to let her go and look after her children.
She lamented that her children had nothing to eat and she told the police officer that “pickney looking after pickney…” She meant that her nine-year-old son was left with his one-year-old and two-year-old brothers.
According to her, “Me din cook fuh me children… Me din even mek a cup of tea fuh dem.” A few hours later the police took her to her little shack and “me ask them, babe ayo eat? And them say no and me tek the lil one and nurse he.”
She recalled that she had gone to the station to make a report after her husband, Dave Dianand and his employer, a rice farmer were involved in a scuffle with a cattle farmer, when she was locked up.
She was accompanied by the rice farmer’s wife who