Just after Albouystown residents finally got relief from days of flooding due to intense rainfall, the community was under water once again yesterday after the door to the Sussex Street koker malfunctioned.
Despite being closed, water was seen flowing from underneath the koker door sometime around 4pm and soon afterwards Albouystown was flooded.
When Stabroek News arrived at the koker, attendants were trying to remedy the situation but to no avail. It was suspected that the door might have been tampered with.
Dexter Hatton, a pump attendant with the Ministry of Public Works, told Stabroek News that he received a call about the koker and in turn contacted the ministry to send a machine to press down the door.
“I get a phone call say the koker break away but I tek the thing for a joke…the person called back and asked me if I called Public Works. So I come and try to close the door but the chain here ain’t wukking no mo’… I tell them man to change this thing but nobody ain’t wan’ hear. This thing here is for a mechanic shop, not for koker wuk!” Hatton said.
He added that there is a schedule for the opening and closing of the koker; however,