What really happened at Mabaruma

Nov 27, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,

I have a contribution to clear up a few deliberately grey areas in Ms. Shaddick’s letter in the Stabroek News of November 24. This concerns the Mabaruma LGE results.
Ms Shaddick was quick to point out that the officials who were dispatched to investigate the matter ‘spent much of their time interacting with APNU activists’. She further went on to write that GECOM’s officials should have acted in a manner precluding any perception of bias.
Ms. Shaddick missed the under mentioned:
1. Did the Returning Officer preclude any perception of bias when he allowed so many questionable proxies from the PPP? His explanation was that ‘he was just helping them out’. How come he was not in such a helpful mood when the APNU persons approached him?
2. The same investigators from Georgetown were observed in a business place of a known PPP supporter (a home where Bharrat Jagdeo stays at most times that he visits Mabaruma). Was that ok with Ms. Shaddick? Did that preclude any perception of bias?
3. The GECOM officials (Mabaruma) had several meetings with only PPP activists during the period before the elections. So????
4. GECOM Officials (Mabaruma) made it their duty to personally verify the few proxies allowed to the APNU. They did not do the same for the PPP because some of the people are resident in other countries and some were from communities far removed from the official boundaries of the Local Government area.
5. A very senior PPP member was allowed to vote, then leave the Polling Place only to return twice to vote for other people. Does that fit into the Electoral regulations? Once, you are in and out that’s it! You do all the voting the same time. Was this another instance of ‘just helping them out’?
6. Why was a Polling Place established at Thomas Hill, which does not have a significant number of voters? The residents there always voted at the Mabaruma Primary School.
7. It is also alleged that a voter died a few days before the election but she voted. So we can now believe that the dead do have some powers? I guess that since her body was still in the morgue, it was okay to ‘just help her out’.

Angry Mabaruma Resident.

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