Region Ten RDC being ignored in road rehabilitation

By Jeff Trotman

 

After months of supporting Ituni and Kwakwani residents for better roads between their communities and Linden and ridiculing Baishanlin for damaging the Linden/Kwakwani Road, the Region Ten Democratic Council (RDC) is being ignored as tangible moves are being made to fix the road.

The matter came to the fore when Regional Chair-man Sharma Solomon updated RDC councillors about a meeting that he participated in at the Workers Club earlier this month, with over 150 Kwakwani residents.

“Councillors how do we get involved in a matter that we are being clearly omitted from and we want to see happen anyhow?” Solomon asked at the monthly statutory meeting of the Region Ten RDC.

Noting that the Workers Club gathering had been organised and chaired by Councillor Adolph, Solomon said many Kwakwani based loggers, who had invited him to that meeting, were absent and had chosen, instead, to go Georgetown for a meeting at the Umana Yana that discussed the road rehabilitation to be spearheaded by Baishanlin.

According to Solomon, when Baishanlin realised that the community was mobilising to bring pressure on the company,