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Dec 04, 2011 Letters

 

 

Dear Editor,
I refer to Janet Bulkan’s letter in KN yesterday in which she opined that APNU ad AFC should call for an independent inquiry into electoral irregularities. Dr. Bulkan did not go that far to ask for the reorganization of GECOM.
I am making that suggestion now. We are absolutely sure that in months’ time we would be heading for local government elections. We should not proceed with those polls if GECOM is not reorganized.
My humble suggestion is that Mr. Gocool Boodoo and Dr. Surujbally should give way to other persons. Speaking for myself, I have no confidence in these two gentlemen. A month before the elections, as Christopher Ram’s guest on his programme, PLAIN TALK, I said I have no confidence in GECOM’s Chairman. This election has convinced me that Dr. Surujbally should go.
GEGOM’s high priests are arrogant, pompous people who do not feel they have to offer explanations to the public and the contesting parties in the face of legitimate complaints about perverted irregularities.
It wasn’t an opposition party or a PPP critic or a GECOM critic who said that authorized persons walked into GECOM with envelopes containing Statements of Poll. It was the OAS Observers. Yet to date there is no response. My opinion that I held since 2006 is that there were some small rigging in the 2006 elections. I know about this in Skeldon. But I doubt it would have affected the outcome. Maybe it would have but I don’t know
Then you have PPP polling agents receiving letters of employment so they can vote where they work on polling day but that was denied to the AFC and APNU people.
And Boodoo and Surujbally want us to see them as credible election officials. Surujbally told the Pegasus gathering that GECOM doesn’t rig elections. Let him tell that to the Guyanese population and see what percentage believes him.
The 2011 general elections was an unhappy one and it has exposed both the Chief Election Officer and its Chairman as incompetent people that should no longer preside over Guyana’s future polls. One of the Commissioners told me on Friday that a serious mischief was afoot and he had to intervene to stop it. I asked him to go public with it and he said he will consider it. I will communicate with that Commissioner over the weekend to ask him if I can forward his name to the leadership of APNU and the AFC. What he told me was frightening. In closing I call upon all stakeholders to support Dr. Bulkan’s letter that APNU and AFC must insist on an independent inquiry on all that went wrong with the 2011 general elections
Frederick Kissoon

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