The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) has disputed claims by Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo that it has misused monies received, while maintaining that its funding has been allocated to various developmental projects for Afro-Guyanese.
Last Friday, Vice President Jagdeo accused IDPADA-G’s founding members of using the Afro-Guyanese community for personal benefit. “Find out how much of the money [IDPADA-G receives] goes to normal Afro-Guyanese,” he told reporters, while claiming that since its founding it had received a total of $468 million from the government to promote the economic advancement and empowerment of Afro-Guyanese.
At a news conference on Monday, Co-founder Vincent Alexander said founders are not beneficiaries of the not-for-profit company.