Home Letters Dissociative amnesia, or selective amnesia?
Dear Editor,
Guyana’s caretaker President David Granger continues to repeat his mantra: that his caretaker Government has done nothing wrong, and should therefore not be on the receiving end of any sanctions. Is this man for real? what a ridiculous and shameless statement!
The reality for many Guyanese is completely different from what David Granger and the APNU+AFC Coalition leaders believe.
David Granger continues to peddle misleading information through the media, leaving his supporters in disarray and the people of this country on the losing end. This leaves me to wonder if David Granger is either suffering from dissociative amnesia, or if it is selective amnesia?
Nothing surprises me anymore, I just call it how I see it: a spade is a spade, APNU-AFC are still on a mercy trail, thumbing their noses at honesty, integrity and decency.
Guyanese, let’s not be fooled by the “white lie” that David Granger keeps repeating, it is merely an attempt to excuse his caretaker administration for committing fraud, rigging, and spreading propaganda across Guyana and the world.
However, Guyanese citizens know the truth, the world knows the truth, everyone has spoken out, including the international community; only pathological liars will try to convince themselves and their cabal that they won these elections. This is the art of bullyism. The fraudulent declaration by Clairmont Mingo for district 4, posted on the GECOM website and remaining there to date, is enough evidence of deception, trying to fool the people of Guyana while violating a court order.
Chief Justice Roxane George had ruled that the purported declaration of the Region 4 results by the Returning Officer was null and void. Clairmont Mingo had failed to carry out his statutory duty in the tabulation process set out in the Representation of the People Act. She also ruled that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot declare a final result until the declaration for Region Four is properly done, the present recount will correct that episode.
In the interest of fairness, I ask that GECOM remove that fraudulent declaration which has been posted on its web site immediately. With 20% of the 879 ballot boxes honestly counted at present in the ongoing recount exercise, counting agents have already uncovered 52 instances where figures were altered by Clairmont Mingo.
The forging of these figures increased the votes in favour of the APNU-AFC and decreased the votes for the People’s Progressive Party. They increased the APNU/AFC count by two thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven votes, and decreased the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic votes by seven hundred and eighteen. This simply means that the votes were manipulated by over three thousand five hundred and forty-five in favour of David Granger, presidential Candidate for the APNU-AFC.
If this is not considered wrongdoing, David Granger and his APNU/AFC administration are living in denial and must stop avoiding the fact that the APNU/AFC committed fraud through District Four RO, Clairmont Mingo.
David Granger and the APNU/AFC know they lost the elections, but they continue promoting that the APNU/AFC won the elections as an expression of reverse psychology, the oldest trick in the book, while they continue to lie to the people of Guyana. However, their diehard supporters will soon see them for who they really are! As the truth reveals itself.
Caretaker President David Granger and APNU-AFC Presidential Candidate, during his visit to the recount centre, met with those persons participating in the recount exercise. He also had secret meeting with the Chairperson of GECOM, Justice (retired) Claudette Singh; the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield; and staff of the Secretariat of GECOM.
What is “most suspect”, David Granger held a meeting with the three members of the CARICOM team currently scrutinising the recount without any of the Opposition parties present. This must be considered a conflict of interest. It was clear to all that David Granger, the APNU-AFC Presidential Candidate, received preferential treatment during his visit on Sunday. This demonstrated clear bias on the part of GECOM. Why was the same privilege and treatment not given to Dr Irfaan Ali, the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic Presidential Candidate, when he visited the recount center?
There are many questions lingering in my mind: Why would David Granger and his whole entourage meet with GECOM and the CARICOM three-member team? Why does David Granger keep insinuating that Caricom is the most legitimate interlocutor on the Guyana situation? this is very strange.
The caretaker Government has cited COVID-19 as an excuse to keep the Carter Center out, while it allowed hundreds of ExxonMobil oil workers in our country without qualms. “Double standards,” yet David Granger speaks about respect.
Mr Granger, please earn your respect by allowing the Carter Center to return to Guyana. The Carter Center’s accredited observation mission remains committed to providing an independent observation of Guyana’s electoral process, including our recount. We need the Carter Center here with the recent move to increase the work stations at the center. The promotion of an IT officer to supervisor at one of these new stations has much to say about GECOM. This is the same person who was questioned extensively by the police on the night of March 4,2020 when the tabulation of votes of District Four was derailed. He was the one who left the room with the laptop and flash drive, which caused party agents to be suspicious. Having that particular IT officer at one of the stations as supervisor for the very District Four is much cause for concern.
Sincerely,
David Adams