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Youth Coalition steps up calls for Surujbally,Boodhoo resignation

Dec 22, 2011 News

Following the announcement of the General and Regional Elections results on December 1st, the Youth Coalition for Transformation (YCT) has been calling for the resignation of Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally, and Chief Executive Officer Gocool Boodhoo.
“We will not let up on our call for Surujbally and Boodhoo resignation… no threat to take us to court for expressing our views will silence us. We understand that our fight is just and our fight is fair, we will not stop until justice prevails.”
That is according to Nia Phill, member of YCT, at a press conference yesterday held at City Hall, Georgetown.
YCT, she insisted, has concluded that the elections were conducted in an alarmingly unsatisfactorily manner. The group is aware of several unwarranted issues which are sufficient enough to question the election process.
Phill emphasized that Surujbally’s comment that the elections be conducted were impeccable is by far contemptuous and disrespectful.
She drew attention to the fact that minutes before Boodhoo announced the results, representatives of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Robert Corbin and Volda Lawrence, alerted GECOM that more than 12,000 votes from South Georgetown, primarily APNU votes, were not factored into GECOM’s results, intended to be declared.
She insisted that it was because of APNU representatives’ intervention, that the Region Four Returning Officer admitted that there was indeed an omission. In addition, it was at the ninth hour that GECOM admitted that it did not even have the requisite Statements of Polls, for those areas but yet it was going to make the declaration.
Phill stressed that Surujbally’s posture continues to be one of ‘I am the boss and I can,t care less about what the people of this country thinks.’
Nonetheless, the YCT affirmed that they are prepared to stand by their claim that Surujbally conducted a questionable election and now there is no confidence in him being retained as Chairman, she added.
“These self appointed ‘massas’ must know that the young people of this country will not be intimidated by their arrogance and disrespect,” she said.
Earlier this month, protestors gathered in front  of Surujbally’s and Gocool’s residents holding candles and singing hymns and Christmas songs.

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