Dear Editor,
Over the past months, the Granger-led cabal and the Guyana Elections Commission have denigrated and swiftly swept aside the Guyana Constitution and rule of law. Their indecent and disgraceful actions have served to conduct and glorify cheating and thievery in full view of the world. It makes it unimaginable that a Government under the auspices of this cabal, could expect to hold citizens accountable to any law or face the international community with any level of acceptance.
A GECOM imbued and contaminated with Mr Granger’s agents, has repeatedly made a mockery of the constitutionally granted autonomy. The administrators led by Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield employed highly unconvincing approaches in rendering the body incredulous. Further, Chairwoman Justice retired Mrs Claudette Singh has turned out to be very unconvincing while the ‘institution status’ has been indelibly erased.
It is a known fact that GECOM has not been audited since 2014 and the Secretariat has been called up for substantive abuse of the billions of taxpayers money under their control. The Secretariat under the hands of Keith Lowenfield has operated like a headless bull, going to court without the blessing of the Commission. This infiltrated cabal is in many ways responsible for the conundrum in which our dear country has been placed.
The equivalent indecency of Mr Granger’s role has realised paramount proportions of hypocrisy and deceit. He attempts to portray unconcerned acceptance of the outright unsatisfactory behaviour of Mr Mingo and Keith Lowenfield in their efforts to derail the verification of the Region Four Statements of Poll under GECOM’s porous veil of autonomy. It matters not that the disgusting concocted attempts to rig the elections through a falsified spreadsheet were exposed in the full view of the international observers, for him and his party already knew that the people of Guyana rejected them.
If the original Statements of Poll informed the APNU/AFC that they had won, how could Mr Granger be unconcerned with the flagrant unjustified stoppages of the verification processes; or with the flimsy excuses of Keith Lowenfield being unable to find a Returning Officer or Deputy to conduct verifications? His silence on these matters is in direct conflict to the education platform he purports and an absolute insult to the intelligence of the Guyanese people.
The APNU/AFC Commissioners in tandem with operatives at GECOM tried to circumvent the voters’ list and disenfranchised voters in PPP/C strongholds. They failed with the ID cards and were humiliated with the truncated House-to-House. Additionally, the combination deliberately allowed the Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) to expire to extend APNU/AFC’s illegal governance following the No-Confidence Motion. Eventually, however, following vigorous PPP/C and other stakeholders’ advocacy, the PLE GECOM used was adjusted by the rightful Claims and Objections process to realise an acceptable final voters’ list.
The fact is that a vigilant PPP/C kept watchful monitoring supervision, thwarting the myriad rigging advances by some GECOM operatives and PNC/APNU/AFC. It led to their failure to rig the elections on March 2, 2020, and the outright resort to barefaced thievery. The counting of votes and verification of the Statements of Poll that were completed in the other nine regions was done acceptably. Realising that they lost the elections, Mr Granger’s men and women disrupted the peaceful approach of the process and disgracefully refused to count the Region Four votes with the party’s and observer’s presence.
With the PPP/C leading by Fifty-two thousand votes and only the Region Four votes remaining to be verified, the irrational Returning Officer, Mr Mingo carried out his Russian roulette act on the Guyanese people. He concocted the Region Four votes without using the original Statements of Poll to show that the APNU won the elections. Most disgraceful is the blatant way in which they committed this unpardonable sin. The world justifiably is condemning the APNU/AFC Granger Government.
The sanctions that will follow any false swearing-in of Mr Granger will have extremely serious consequences for Guyana. It is without countenance that Mr Granger may want to be embarrassingly imposed against the will of the majority of Guyanese. But this created revolution will be at its strongest internally, for our people would have witnessed Mingo’s concoction and are demanding that their every vote must be counted.
We have received a plethora of feedback from all quarters of citizens who are prepared to join the revolution. The entire world is looking at Guyana. Prominent world leaders, as well as significantly recognised international organisations, have spoken out demanding that Mr Granger do the right thing for Guyana. They have unequivocally expressed in clear and undiplomatic terms that they will not accept the APNU/AFC farce, which puts all Guyana at our greatest threat. Hence, GECOM must move to ensure the transparent recount of Region Four.
With regards,
Neil Kumar
