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ECCB condemns attempts to hold disruptive Demerara Cricket Board Elections
Davteerth Anandjit ECCB Secretary
Kaieteur News – Secretary of the East Coast Cricket Board, Davteerth Anandjit, has issued a statement strongly condemning efforts to have election held for the body, when according to him, election have already been held and a duly constituted body has been in place since last year.
Here is the full text of the statement from the ECCB Secretary:
“East Coast Cricket Board condemns belated attempt by East Coast Cricket Committee to stop legal elections of Demerara Cricket Board.
The Executive Committee of the East Coast Cricket Board, which held lawful and unchallenged elections in August, 2020, notes with utter disgust and amazement the attempt by certain persons to stop and/or cause confusion in the long-awaited lawful elections of the Demerara Cricket Board, which said lawful election is imminent.
The East Coast Cricket Board discovered that in the classified advertisement section of the Guyana Chronicle Newspaper of 5th February, 2021, certain clubs, unlawfully and suddenly referring to themselves as the East Coast Cricket Board, issued a notice for an election of the East Coast Cricket Board.”
“The East Coast Cricket Board held lawful elections in August, 2020 and that election has not been challenged by anyone. The East Coast Cricket Board which held the elections in August, 2020 is the very same East Coast Cricket Board which was recognized by the High Court in Action No. 622 FDA of 2018 (Demerara) as the lawful and legitimate East Coast Cricket Board. In that High Court Action, Anand Sanasie had challenged the legality of the East Coast Cricket Board and his challenge failed, miserably.
Sanasie, ‘the so-called’ Secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board who is not the secretary had always refused to recognize the legitimate East Coast Cricket Board but has instead chosen to recognize his supporter group, East Coast Cricket Committee.
As recent as October, 2020, the East Coast Cricket Committee issued two press releases in the print media, Guyana Times on 21st October, 2020 and Guyana Chronicle on 22nd October, 2020 where the East Coast Cricket Committee proclaimed their alleged success of cricket on the East Coast and made disparaging remarks about the legitimate and lawful East Coast Cricket Board.
Now that a lawful election of the Demerara Cricket Board is imminent, the persons or groups who held themselves out proudly to be East Coast Cricket Committee have now metamorphosed into East Coast Cricket Board.”
“The reason for the metamorphosis is simple. Only the East Coast Cricket Board is recognized under the Guyana Cricket Administration Act and can lawfully vote at the Demerara Cricket Board election.
The East Coast Cricket Board wishes to remind the public that at the lawful election of the Berbice Cricket Board, a “new and embryonic” Upper Corentyne Cricket Association emerged less than two weeks prior to the Berbice Cricket Board election in an effort to cause confusion, but the Learned Judge in the Berbice Cricket Board matter saw through the sinister plan and the attempt to interfere with the lawful election of the Berbice Cricket Board was thwarted.
Truth, Justice and Law will always prevail and this attempt by the East Coast Cricket Committee to interfere in the lawful election of the Demerara Cricket Board will suffer stillbirth.”
“The East Coast Cricket Board is a lawful entity and anyone attempting to impersonate officers of the Board or usurp their functions will suffer the consequences. Impersonation is a criminal offence.”
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