THE PPP trio, Mohamood Shaw, Dr. Keshav Mangal and Athmaram Mangar have expressed doubts about free and fair local government elections under GECOM.

The PPP should demand that the PNC and GECOM representatives to explain to the public via media what exactly GECOM is doing and why LGE was not held.

If the PNC lackeys on GECOM refuse to appear on air, then Government needs to keep pounding it on the airwaves until every single Guyanese in and out of Guyana know the PNC/GECOM representatives are up to sinister tricks that is why they refuse to come openly to the public forums.

So far PNC has everything that they want in GECOM, including Hoyte-chosen Chairman Steve Surujbally, a long-time supporter of the PNC, who railroaded the technocrat CEO out to retain his own position in order to install another die-hard PNC supporter as CEO; so the deck is heavily stacked against the PPP, in terms of free and fair elections of any kind. They have their own people in there now and the UK and US Ambassadors knew this, so the US and UK envoys, who normally support the PNC against the PPP, were pushing for LGE, because they know something is up in GECOM that would give traditional riggers, PNC, victory at the polls.

I feel sorry bad for these three PPP guys in there. They must be frightened to death for their lives, given the nature of the beasts.

The other sad part is that the PPP has no other choice but to ask Guyana Police for security, which is like asking the PNC for security to ensure free and fair elections.

More sadness for PPP and its supporters is that they cannot ask the GDF for security, because it is the same as asking Police, since they all pledged their loyalty to the PNC through ‘kith n Kin’ affiliations, which is not a far-fetched assumption, given the fact of a conversation and later position between a former Commissioner of Police, who is now comfortably ensconced in Parliament in the PNC benches.

The USA, EU, and UK are working hard behind the scenes to ensure a PNC/AFC/APNU victory at the polls, even if they fund them and help them to cheat, as they have before.

It will be a very sad day for Guyanese should PNC get back to power, where they will jail many members of the PPP on all sorts of trumped-up charges.

I wish I could get my entire family, who love Guyana dearly, out of there in a hurry.

Most politicians and their families have visas to leave Guyana at will, but not so for many Guyanese who will have no choice but to stay there and burn under another misfit, destructive PNC admistration.

TED KING