| For several years Guyana-born Dennis Seeraj has declined to accept US citizenship, but recent events at the hands of the local police have forced him to change his mind.Seeraj, a resident of New York, USA, who has been returning to Guyana frequently to make donations to several less fortunate Guyanese, was locked up and subsequently fined for threatening language, last December. He reportedly clashed with a prominent doctor.Since then he returned to the United States of America but has come back only to have the police harass him,Evan Engram Jersey, he claims.According to Seeraj, it all started with his neighbour, a well known local doctor who accused him of threatening him. Seeraj,Wholesale NFL China Jerseys, in an interview with this newspaper, said that last year he returned to Guyana for the Main Big Lime and had taken a few ‘drinks’.When he returned to the place where he was stopping on the East Coast of Demerara he was involved in an argument with the doctor.“He told me he could call the Divisional Commander and get me locked up,” Seeraj told this newspaper.The doctor was true to his word and Seeraj was promptly arrested and taken to the Vigilance Police Station where he was held for an entire day. Seeraj said that he was taken from his home without shoes and shirt. “They took me out of my bed because my neighbour made an allegation against me,Cheap Jerseys Online,” Seeraj told this newspaper. This was the beginning of the problems with the local police for Seeraj.He told this newspaper that he was denied the right to a telephone call and was placed in a cell despite his protestations that he was innocent.The US-based Guyanese believes that the police were influenced by the fact that the complainant was a prominent doctor.“The police told me I’m a drunk guy and they don’t want to hear anything from me. They placed me in the lock-ups which was in a deplorable condition. I was afraid that I may contract some germ. I stood at the (lock-ups) door the entire night; I was scared to sit on the floor,Jerseys From China,” Seeraj contended.He said that while he was in the lock-ups other inmates told him that they were in there some for six and others for nine days, something the US-based Guyanese found reprehensible. He said that there are policemen who know about his charitable activities in Guyana and yet he was not given a hearing.A source at the Vigilance Police Station told this newspaper that the court found sufficient evidence that Seeraj did threaten the doctor, hence the $35,000 fine imposed by the magistrate.The source admitted that Seeraj was initially denied a telephone call but explained that at the time the detainee was under the influence of alcohol. The source also confirmed that a senior police officer in the division who was contacted by the doctor had instructed that Seeraj be placed in the lock-ups.Seeraj said that upon his return to Guyana four days ago he was unaware that he had been fined in absentia.On Wednesday, several police ranks went to the house he was staying and invited him to the station since they informed that there was a judgement against him.Seeraj complied and subsequently paid the fine but was so angry that he disdainfully threw another set of cash on the floor of the Vigilance Police Station and walked out.“I will now seek my American citizenship because as far as I am concerned, Guyana is no longer home to me,NCAA Hockey Jerseys,” he said. Of course his future actions will affect the charitable work he is doing in Guyana,Jerseys NFL China, but he did leave room for its continuation. “I live to help people but this was too much for me. I hear about Guyanese being mistreated in the Caribbean, but when our own do it to us it is really bad,” said Seeraj, who claimed that he has never been in police custody before this ordeal.In addition he is not too certain that he will not convey the negatives of his recent visit to friends in the Diaspora whom he says are still undecided about investing in Guyana. |
