Dear Editor,
The coronavirus may have effectively stopped all sports and games globally, but we in Guyana can never be stopped. We, in the personages of the PNC/GECOM, are merrily continuing to play games with the Guyanese population while showing the finger to the rest of the world.
After the NCM was successfully passed, I had reason to write that GECOM was delinquent in not being ALWAYS prepared for the eventuality of an NCM, and therefore being ALWAYS ready and prepared to have CREDIBLE elections within the time stipulated by the Constitution of Guyana.
As far as any right-thinking person (whether Guyanese or not) is concerned, such irresponsible, incompetent and inefficient management of GECOM should have been enough reason to dismiss the entire hierarchy of that constitutional entity. If anyone had doubted before, they have now clearly seen GECOM show their partisan character after the NCM; and glaringly, shamelessly, barefacedly continuing to do so with the apparent support of a chairperson who seems hopelessly “lost at sea”.
I hope the Commonwealth advisor who attended the GECOM meeting on April 16 can convince her of the URGENCY to get the accurate results of the March 2 elections and have them declared, have the new government installed, so that Guyanese breathe again, since COVID-19 requires healthy lungs.
On a similar note, I’ve read that a person at the front and CENTRE of the controversy for the declaration of District FOUR, deemed improper by the courts of Guyana, has also been attending meetings of GECOM. I now ask publicly: Is it “fit and proper” for the Deputy CEO of GECOM, moreso after being mired in controversy, to attend meetings of this body? Or was her presence there to exert “influence” on anyone?
I also had reason to write a few days ago that Mr. Granger, after admitting that the Government has lost the NCM, “changed his mouth” and said the Government had been elected for five years, and intended to remain that long in office; which leads me to believe that he is waiting for MAY or AFTER, to finally accept defeat and demit office screaming and shouting.
Since so much has already been offered on the recount and how long such a process should take, I wouldn’t say much, except to repeat that, in my opinion, there is absolutely no need for a recount of District (Region) FOUR, as it was NEVER completed as determined by the Court, and should be continued from when the SOPs being used was discontinued. District FOUR should be COUNTED, NOT recounted.
I reiterate my agreement with the PSC (and others) that a recount of the nine districts for which results were already declared is a waste of time. It is obvious and glaring to me and many others that GECOM/PNC and their lackeys are using the recount of all ten districts to further drag this madness on and on. I am also certain they have more tricks in their bag. However, I recognise that my voice is one “in the wilderness” at this time.
Now the latest scandal is their engagement of a lobbying firm in Washington(?) to do their dirty, dishonest, defamatory propaganda WITH OUR MONEY.
I have seen known PNC bloggers answering that by saying that the PPP hired Mercury, but wasn’t that engagement done with private funds? I don’t know that the Treasury of Guyana was raided for that engagement, but more on this later.
Regards,
HN Nawbatt
