Hodge told reporters yesterday that it has been some years now she had been trying to obtain a meet-brief for a piece of government land that was given to her, but the person who was responsible for measuring the land did not follow up causing her to fall in problems with the current government.
Hodge whose three story house is located at number 4 Pigeon Pea Road woke up to set of heavy equipments and an excavator that intended to cut a road next to her home taking with it her steps.
The woman said she only learnt that government had plans to cut the road when she went to pick up a document at Public Works to install her GEBE meter in 2008. "While I was in the office of Claudius Buncamper he told me that I need to move my step since the island government has to cut a road there." She said ever since then Buncamper refused to deal with the situation telling her he did not want to hear anything. Others including commissioner of Public Works Theo Heyliger did nothing until yesterday when he was called by NA leader William Marlin who requested information on what was taking place. Shortly after that, Hodge said the executive assistant to the island leader of government called her to say she instructed Joseph Dollison to stop operations.
She said ever since then she has been knocking on doors to regulate the problem but no one seems to know what is happening. Hodge said she even learnt that head of new projects Kurt Ruan and Mr. Andre Patrick from the Kadastre office has given government negative advice on the road since there is a huge gut next to her house.
The woman who has serious health problems said she has been doing all she can to save her home from flooding. "Even Joseph Dollison assisted me by giving me dirt to fill in the gut, so he knows the area is not safe to dredge. Hodge said on one occasion she called on Ruan for advice during the heavy rain, as she had feared her house being washed away.
She also said she has been living on the land since 1981 and she obtained the land and first home from the late Dr. Claude Wathey, but those responsible for the measuring of the land never told her where her boundary was. Even though in possession of the meet-brief the woman said she does know how much of the land she owns, she however admitted that a piece of the land that is closer to her step is not hers and it was given to her by two commissioners but even though having a letter the Kadastre never gave her a meet-brief for that part of the land.
"I am from here and I have nowhere else to call home, but if government so badly wants this piece of land to make an access road for other neighbors then they can pay me three million dollars and I would gladly leave". Hodge said.