Danny's Village residents forcibly evicted; Mungra previously arrested for child abuse
A 'faceless' foundation evicted and destroyed homes in Danny's Village. Project developer Surindre Mungra was previously arrested in Nickerie on suspicion of abusing a minor girl.
Destruction and eviction at Danny's Village; developer Mungra previously detained
De Ware Tijd reports that residents of Danny's Village were confronted this week with forced evictions and destruction of their homes. A foundation with unclear governance claims to be the rightful owner of the subdivision project and had armed men distribute letters to residents — after which those men themselves did not comply with the content of those letters.
District Commissioner Budike read the letter in question on the spot and made clear that the eviction and destruction mentioned in it had no legal basis. After the district commissioner invalidated the letter, the men disappeared at high speed. The residents, according to their own account, had purchased plots from the developer and believed they were legally residing in their homes.
Columnist Sharda Ganga of De Ware Tijd, who has been following the subdivision project for fifteen years, raises the question of who will unravel this legal and financial web: which notaries lent their cooperation, what does the network of alleged fraud look like, and who will bear the costs of the damage?
An earlier encounter with Villapark Danny
Ganga described in a column from November 2011, which she shared again this week, her own search for an affordable plot in Suriname. After years of saving, she ended up at Villapark Danny in Tourtonne — at that time still largely marshland, but for her 400 square metres of her own land.
At the project office, her eye fell on a larger-than-life mural of a man with flowing hair and open shirt collar. When asked who the person depicted was, the employee answered: Surindre Mungra, owner of the project.
Inside there were more portraits of the same man. When the term "ground lease" subsequently came up, Ganga and her accompanying brother and sister-in-law — both employed in the private sector — decided to leave the premises. On the corner of the street, writes Ganga, they had to stop the car because they had to laugh too hard.
A few years later, when the auction of Danny's Villapark was announced, they, according to their own account, drank a glass of cola to their "gut feeling".
Mungra arrested in Nickerie
Ganga concluded her submitted piece with the information that Surindre Mungra — whom she describes as a politician, political analyst, historian, singer and captain — was arrested in Nickerie. The police gave as the reason "interfering" with a minor girl.
On the combination of that news and his well-known self-adulation, Ganga writes dryly: "I always thought that Mister Mungra has enough of himself. That his self-love is so great that he no longer needs any girls, big or small, to go with it. Only a large mirror."
Questions remain unanswered
The current situation surrounding Danny's Village raises, according to De Ware Tijd, several unanswered questions: how the ownership structure of the foundation looks, what legal roles notaries have played, and what the legal position is of the residents who have purchased plots but now face destroyed or evicted homes.
Source: De Ware Tijd