Swift execution of justice needed to confirm no tolerance for cheating, stealing elections

Dear Editor,

Our country will soon have Local Government Elections, the first elections hosted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) since the debacle following the March 2020 polling processes.

Accordingly, it is time to re-look at some of the core influencing factors to the problems that threatened the core fabric of democratic existence and took the country to the precipice of national incivility.

No loophole should prevent imposition of the most substantial penalties on those guilty of flagrant violations of the applicable laws, because of the need to eradicate Election rigging absolutely and to assure national confidence and credible election results. As a collective, our citizens are aware of the massive degree of caution undertaken by the newly-appointed administrators to lift the beleaguered credibility of the organization caused by the dirty works of former employees. One therefore anticipates the delivery of a more flu- ent results-driven agenda that will be instructive to commencing a necessary resuscitation of national confidence, required for an enhanced GECOM image.

Historically, there is much justification for condemnation of the roles officials of the GECOM played and were able to escape with as they flagrantly abused the related laws and approved procedures. For decades, the key orchestrators were protected and rewarded for cheating the nation through clandestine manoeuvres, supported by the muscled manipulation of decision-making and controls of the Elections Commission.

Recorded history documents the unpleasant experiences of the PPP, who were kept in opposition due to the damning condemnatory controls of GECOM Commissioners.

Comparatively, one only has to take a cursory look at the decisions of President Granger’s imposed James Patterson as GECOM Chairman. Thankfully, the abuses of this power were wrenched away by the decisions of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) when the PPPC challenges were addressed.

Rational observation of the scenario points to the systemic cheating agenda and their seeming immunity to rigging. These influences stem from the core character of the PNC operatives, which informs the more challenging problem to dispel for long-term focus and address. What is certain is that the PNC’s deliberate attempts to steal the Government by the senior functionary within GECOM must not be condoned.

Consequently, former top employees must face the courts immediately, and stand the consequences for their deliberate and blatant attempts to ‘rig’ the National and Regional Elections in 2020. The swift execution of justice in this respect is required to unequivocally confirm that it is not at all okay to cheat and steal, in particular the rights and destiny of our people.

Since 1968, the PNC operatives have taken pride in rolling out an indoctrination agenda that achieving and maintaining power by any means necessary is a nationalistic ideal. Sadly, and