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Soesdyke Community Development Council protests elections

Jul 29, 2009 News

The Soesdyke Community Development Council members are protesting the recent election of Aaron Grant-Stuart as Chairman, and Michael Persaud, as Vice Chairman of the Soesdyke Te Huis Te Coverden Neighbourhood Democratic Council.
Following the elections on Monday, the group formally penned a letter that was supposed to be delivered to the elections commission yesterday protesting the elections.
Leslie Glasgow, the outgoing Chairman, on behalf of the Soesdyke Community Development Council, a civil group that contested the 1994 Local Government Elections, at the Soesdyke Te Huis Te Coverden Neighbourhood Democrative Council area, signed the letter.
Glasgow lodged a formal protest at the way in which the internal elections for Chairman and Vice Chairman were conducted on Monday as directed by the Minister of Local Government.
Explaining, Glasgow said that on April 24, last, the Minister of Local Government appointed four Councillors to fill vacant seats on the PPP/C side. One of the replacements was Shelly Ann Baya, a schoolteacher.
Baya served until Wednesday, July 22, when she attended the statutory meeting. On July 24, at 15:00 hrs, Glasgow said that a letter was received from the Minister of Local Government rescinding the appointment of Shelly Ann Baya on the grounds that she is not a public servant.
She is a teacher at a Private School.
The letter immediately appointed Nadia Hussain to replace Baya.  He said, “We view this unprecedented move as deliberate and unwarranted since at the time of her appointment Ms. Baya was in the same employ.”
Pointing to what the group dubs alarming, Glasgow’s letter states that Hussain never sat at a Statutory Meeting of the Council, and was therefore never received in the Council but she turned up and voted at a duly constituted election at a special meeting of the Council.
“This move to our mind was unconstitutional and therefore illegal as the law requires that notices for such electoral process must be served on every serving Councilors at least seventy two hours in advance.”
Glasgow said that from 15:00 hrs on Friday when the letter was received to 08:00 hrs on the Monday following could never have given the authorized time for the serving of the notice.
In view of this, Glasgow said his group informed the clerk that they are protesting the legality of Hussain’s casting her ballot during that process which further rendered the whole process null and void. He says his group anxiously awaits a reply from the elections commission.

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