Chaos at preparation for Disciplined Services voting (Pt 2)

Dear Editor,
On the arrival of the PPP’s Chief Scrutineer Mr Mustapha at GECOM on Monday 23rd October, 2018, it was decided that the PPP will officially be provided with an official copy of the 7,917 disciplined services personnel names early on the morning of the 23rd. Further, it was agreed that Parties could have teams of scrutineers at intervals. This was a serious anomaly since GECOM wrote to the stake-holders saying only two observers would be permitted. Further, GECOM Officials had notably bungled and flopped again, given that they wrote to all the stakeholders inviting them to start the process on Tuesday at 10 AM, and then called some persons to start on Monday, October 22, 2018.
After, a long day’s work the very tired PPP scrutineers decided to stop working at 1.30 AM with process still to completed. Some of the Commissioners agreed that the process cannot continue without any scrutineers, even as tired GECOM staff were forced to work until after 3.30 AM. Some of the staff disappeared, while others made understandably negative comments of the process. There were visible evidence of tiredness and tardiness in the process because the environment made it extremely challenging for people to focus on what they had to do. The PPP Commissioner and Scrutineers stayed on to the very end and partly secured Containers with their lock, leaving GECOM to put on their Seals.
There were no work program or check-list and the entire process lacked professionalism. Again, Mr. Lowenfield went missing as the PPP Chief Scrutineer was waiting for him.
He failed to turn up. There is much to be done to improve the ethics at GECOM and these issues must not be allowed to transfer into D-Day and E-Day of any elections. It is time GECOM stops this flip-flopping and bungling. And properly account for the Hundreds of millions of tax payers’ dollars that they are claiming to have spent on training.
More will be written about the torture and the lousy arrangements they had during the ‘Enveloping’ of the disciplined services ballots.
This process and all that is taking place at GECOM is a recipe for serious changes at GECOM.

Yours sincerely,
Neil Kumar