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PLEASE allow me to echo the sentiments of Mr. Archie Cordis, AFC Councillor for Region 2, in his letter captioned: “Many are awaiting the outcome of the police probe into the bogus tickets sold for Essequibo Night”, which was published in the Stabroek News on Friday October 19, 2012. There have been many questions and commentaries on the Essequibo Coast about the bogus tickets sold to patrons on ‘Essequibo Nite 2012’ by all Essequibians. No one can dispute that this was a well orchestrated plan by the high regional official and his son to defraud the event. According to reliable party sources, they were the architect of the well planned scheme since all the security-feature tickets were in the total control of him for safe-keeping in his office for three days before the event.
The tickets for both nights, as I alluded to in my previous letter to the Chronicle newspaper, dated Monday October, 22, 2012, had different colours but not security features. It was (allegedly) reprinted in the home village of the high regional official and given to his son to be sold in the compound opposite the fire station.
Editor, according to members of the committee, the female Regional Democratic Councillor was framed by the regional official after she was sent by him to call the other male ticket seller across the street. He and his son placed the bogus tickets in the female RDC Councillor’s shoulder bag after the fraud was exposed to cover-up his son; they were the only two persons left in the booth after she had left. Patrons who bought these bogus tickets verified to members of the planning committee that they had purchased their tickets from his son and not the female RDC Councillor.
It was the regional official who requested the police as a cover-up after the incident was broadcast in the ground to search the female councillor’s bag in her absence after they (allegedly) planted the bogus tickets in her bags and told her that they felt something hard when she returned with the other ticket collector from across the fire station. Editor, why the female councillor’s bag was not checked in the presence of the police before she went to call Mr. Dave Sukhai across the street is now a big question to the planning committee members.
Essequibo Nite 2012 procedures and arrangements by this high official in terms of its tickets security was all different from preceding Essequibo Nites for the past 10 years of the event when I was a former committee member.
The tickets for both nights, as I alluded to in my previous letter to the Chronicle newspaper, dated Monday October, 22, 2012, had different colours but not security features. It was (allegedly) reprinted in the home village of the high regional official and given to his son to be sold in the compound opposite the fire station.
Editor, according to members of the committee, the female Regional Democratic Councillor was framed by the regional official after she was sent by him to call the other male ticket seller across the street. He and his son placed the bogus tickets in the female RDC Councillor’s shoulder bag after the fraud was exposed to cover-up his son; they were the only two persons left in the booth after she had left. Patrons who bought these bogus tickets verified to members of the planning committee that they had purchased their tickets from his son and not the female RDC Councillor.
It was the regional official who requested the police as a cover-up after the incident was broadcast in the ground to search the female councillor’s bag in her absence after they (allegedly) planted the bogus tickets in her bags and told her that they felt something hard when she returned with the other ticket collector from across the fire station. Editor, why the female councillor’s bag was not checked in the presence of the police before she went to call Mr. Dave Sukhai across the street is now a big question to the planning committee members.
Essequibo Nite 2012 procedures and arrangements by this high official in terms of its tickets security was all different from preceding Essequibo Nites for the past 10 years of the event when I was a former committee member.
The Secretariat had full control and missing tickets or bogus tickets were never an issue, since money collected from the booths reflected the amount of tickets sold.
It is now clear that the female councillor was wrongfully blamed and arrested by both the police and a high official of the region; he used his office to clear his son from the bogus tickets racket. The people therefore, call upon the President of Guyana to conduct an impartial investigation into this highly organised fraud on Essequibo Nite 2012.
