Coalition is still willing to gamble, despite threats of sanctions

Dear Editor,
On March 13, Attorney-at-Law Charles Ramson Jnr filed private criminal proceedings against Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo and PNC’s Chairperson Volda Lawrence for the alleged forging of documents so as to defraud the Guyanese nation.
The offence read that Mingo, having been procured by Lawrence on or about March 5 at the Command Centre of GECOM, uttered to the CEO, Keith Lowenfield, the results for Region Four knowing it to be forged with intent to defraud the people of Guyana.
No fair-minded Guyanese at that time had an iota of doubt that the ‘magical spreadsheet’ conjured by Mingo was fraudulent and intended to be used to rig the 2020 elections in favour of APNU/AFC. All the local and foreign observers, including The Carter Center, the OAS, the EU and all the foreign Ambassadors made reports and statements to that effect. It was these fraudulent declarations by Mingo in spite of a clear court order, which triggered the recount.
Now at last, even though the recount is laboriously journeying at a snail’s pace, the Region Four Statements of Recount have so far proven conclusively that the Returning Officer, Mingo was, in fact, rigging the SoPs in favour of the APNU/AFC coalition and no amount of red herrings vomited by the coalition’s propagandists can now prove otherwise.
It was the most amateurish attempt to rig an election and prompted the Head of the OAS, Mr Bruce Golding, to state that he has, “never seen a more transparent effort to alter the results of an election”. Neither was it a mystery why the coalition took to the courts and spent millions of taxpayers’ dollars to block the recount.
Not only was the attempt by Mingo the work of an amateur but it is so hilarious. This was evident when Mr Bruce Golding recounted the stringent electoral process as it relates to the preparation and submission of Statements of Poll. He stifled a laugh as he stated that, “…it takes an extraordinarily courageous mind to present fictitious number when such a sturdy paper trail exists”.
This just goes to expose the fact that Mingo was probably given a 100 per cent guarantee that there will be no recount and maybe that even if there is, his fraudulent figures will never be exposed and he will be protected by all means. Well, it now seems that Mingo is all alone and he must now come clean to save himself by exposing the people who are behind his fraudulent acts.
He must be reminded that he is still facing a contempt of court proceeding. However, Mingo was just a puppet and we all know who the puppet masters are. It is evident that Mr Ramson’s criminal proceeding already captured two of them. Volda Lawrence as the Chairperson of the PNC, the major party in the coalition, signed one of the fraudulent declarations made by Mingo so let’s see how she defends the indefensible. So much for GECOM’s independence!
Another open fraudulent behaviour is that of the CEO, Lowenfield, who has refused to now abort the fraudulent declaration for Region Four even though he has glaring and conclusive evidence to prove that such a declaration was fraudulent.
Jagdeo has said that the now proven fraudulent declarations should no longer be held in abeyance as had previously been declared by the GECOM’s Chairperson. The act of GECOM to still hold on to the false and fraudulent declarations is now criminal and must be condemned. What is GECOM’s Chair waiting on? It must be recalled that Jagdeo had requested a court order to disclose the SoPs for Region Four by GECOM and until now that has not been done. This action is mirrored by AFC’s General Secretary, David Patterson, who also refused to release the SoPs in his party’s possession.
The same with APNU. The APNU/AFC had claimed that they won the elections, yet they are hiding their SoPs and had tried to block the recount. This would make it seem like an apparent attempt again to cover the fraud perpetrated by Mingo on behalf of the coalition. At this stage, a fraudulent declaration is not rejected and valid SoPs are kept in hiding. I smell a sinister motive here.
In conclusion, the using of the COVID-19 Task Force which is headed by coalition politicians, Nagamootoo and Harmon as the CEO, to block The Carter Center from concluding its observation of the recount can only be seen as another attempt to foist its rigging apparatus upon this nation.
We have also seen that GECOM is still trying desperately to do the biddings of the coalition when it forwarded its proposal to increase its work stations to the COVID-19 Task Force which is headed by the Government. This is so despite being an independent and autonomous constitutional body. It would seem that despite threats of sanctions and its disastrous effects, the coalition is still willing to gamble.

Yours sincerely,
Haseef Yusuf