GECOM concerned about bogus employees operating in Region One

Aug 13, 2014 News

The Guyana Elections Commission has distanced itself from persons posing as GECOM employees in Region One, Barima-Waini.
In a statement issued yesterday, GECOM said that it is in receipt of reports from that Region that unauthorized persons, claiming to be employees of GECOM, have been visiting homes with copies of extracts of the current Preliminary List of Electors (PLE) to check, and advise residents, on their registration status.
According to GECOM, investigations have revealed that the persons engaged in this activity are alleged “Community Support Officers” in Mabaruma and Port Kaituma.
The investigations have also revealed that the persons have in their possession a copy of a letter purportedly written by the Regional Executive Officer of the Region authorizing them to engage in the activity of concern.
“In view of the foregoing, we hereby note emphatically that no GECOM staff is engaged in any such activity in Region One or any other Region,” GECOM stated.
Concerns about the activity were also raised by the Peoples National Congress Reform, which said that it is aware that the People’s Progressive Party Civic is using ‘so called’ Community Support Officers (CSO) to do political work in the Barima-Waini Region.
“These CSO’s who are paid by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs are masquerading as officers of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and canvassing residents of the Region. The PNCR calls attention to the fact that these persons (CSO’s) are members of the Progressive Youth Organization (PYO) engaging in illegal campaign activity on behalf of the PPPC,” the PNCR said in a statement also issued yesterday.
In light of the recent development, GECOM advised that its staff members are authorized to embark on mobile exercises to provide opportunities for eligible persons in far-flung communities to conduct transactions relative to the ongoing Claims and Objections exercise.
It added that all such activities are adequately announced within the respective communities prior to the visits.
“Further, we take this opportunity to make it abundantly clear that all of GECOM’s employees working in the field wear, and are identifiable by, certified identification badges at all times during working hours. They are accompanied by duly accredited and adequately identifiable Scrutineers representing the Parliamentary Political Parties,” GECOM stated.

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