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  • 1 year ago
A resident of Sum Sum Hill in Claxton Bay is expressing frustration over the continuous flooding of his home. Karim Mohammed tells TV6 News, he has lost almost everything.
The situation according to him is caused by other residents who are blocking an excavator from cleaning the river, leading to not only destruction of property, but a health hazard as well.


Alicia Boucher tells us more.
Transcript
00:00What's going on inside my house? I want to talk about it. The police gave me wrong, right, right?
00:05Yes, you are going on inside my house here, right? What's so good on your watch a
00:10nightmare for any homeowner in such a situation
00:14From a recent flooding incident captured in this video a vast volume of water from a nearby river
00:21Flows into the yard of Kareem Mohammed. I know you notice from after where is after I update it
00:27I know banking or clean or nothing dies with the people. I'm don't want the escapade
00:32His refrigerator has now been destroyed a speaker box was drenched and so too was his washing machine
00:39couch and other household items
00:43Large cracks have appeared over time in the concrete flow of his some some Hill Claxton Bay home
00:52Mohammed tells us it's a situation. He has been enduring time and time again
00:56And one he attributes to inconsiderate construction activities by some of his neighbors
01:03They make the escapade are clean at least about 50 feet alone in the river and the telly escapade
01:08I don't know why I'm coming on because I got two cherry tree and I could be you know
01:12What I'd break down on this side is I set a cover to set a cat
01:16Mining there at least about two or three hundred cats in the coop
01:20Apart from the stress of dirty water invading his property
01:23Mohammed is concerned about his health. That's what rotten mosquitoes and
01:28Santa peace cockroaches. This is why again in my property. I am a poor person
01:33The resident states that he made a report to the police station, but was referred to the kuva tabak. He tell para regional corporation
01:41Which he called on several occasions
01:44Mohammed claims that after a runaround he finally got on to a supervisor
01:49Supervisor take the complaint and nothing ever do about it, right? Nothing ever do about it
01:54That is long before this could happen
01:57Up to his neck in frustration
02:00Mohammed calls for intervention from the regional corporation
02:03I want the cooperative to come and remove everything from on the riverbank
02:08There is at least 15 to 20 feet away from the riverbank
02:11So the excavator could come and clean this river so that the people in the environment wouldn't have to go through this
02:17His losses his losses who helping me know who come and to give me something
02:23Alicia Boucher TV 6 News
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