Swift execution of justice...

duplicitously, those persons more strongly involved in the rigging elections in Guyana were naturally idolised in the PNC’s ranks. In this context, the PNC needed more than the complete control of GECOM to support their rigging support platform, but a mandatory component of their more expansive focused manipulation areas for strategic manipulation.

In 1973, the PNC used the army to rig the National Elections blatantly, and they murdered and killed in the process. We must never forget the Ballot Box Martyrs, who paid with their lives for standing up against the PNC-directed murderous assaults. The 1980 and 1985 Elections were massively rigged, and it was this massive rigging that caused the people of this country to unite in the formation of the Political Committee for Democracy (PCD); eventually leading to the dawn of a new era in 1992, when the PPP/C won the National and Regional Elections.

Again, the APNU/AFC attempts to steal the Government in 2020 forced the united Opposition to resist strongly. With the steadfast support of the International Community, the newly-formed ‘Guardians of Democracy’ emerged from the Guyanese Electorate. They fought for five long months, eventually winning their truthful, people-elected democratic right to govern this country. However, during the process, it became clear that employees of the GECOM Secretariat had deliberately engineered and allowed the usage of the false spreadsheet of fictitious results.

Further, the more diligent our guardians were, the more he demonstrated his ulterior motives and denied using the legal statements of poll for the tabulation process. ‘As the CEO of the GECOM Secretariat,’ his conduct dealt a deep body blow to the integrity of Guyana’s electoral system and cherished democratic values. Such occurrences justly and forcefully must be condemned as the ultimate betrayal of trust in the highest election official in the land by the people of Guyana.

As for one particular former employee, her attitude and role in the rigging were most distasteful. She insulted the imminent foreign observers, and was certainly a stranger to the truth. Her remarks to the party agents and international observers were condescending, insulting, and distasteful as she attempted to force them out of the tabulation room, saying, “Take your rubbish with you and leave.”

Several persons continue in the employ of GECOM who were summoned to appear before the Commission of Inquiry, but did not appear. Our citizens note that GECOM will still have to further cleanse itself from the remnant rogue elements, and ensure adequate internal counter-checking mechanisms.

The commissioners of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry must be complimented for an excellent job. However, those the Police have placed to face charges before the court must be given a speedy trial, and when found guilty, they must be prosecuted to send a clear message: ‘Down with Rigged Elections!”

Sincerely, Neil Kumar