Dear Editor
IT is my firm belief that GECOM is a constitutional body, which is an independent agency that governs itself and, therefore, not even the President of this beautiful land of Guyana has any authority to mandate this agency what to do or should be done.

It is also my firm belief that the judiciary is the same as the above and no one has the authority to mandate this agency what to do because it is an independent body. Therefore, it will be a sad day for Guyana when or if the courts is to mandate GECOM when to hold the elections, knowing it is an independent agency that sets out its own work programmes and timeframe.

It will be a very sad day to see that another independent agency can mandate another independent agency what to do when both are independent agencies that set their own work programmes and time frames.

It is my firm belief that the relevant court of law should allow GECOM, as an independent body, to do its work no matter what. If the court wants to mandate GECOM when to hold or set elections, first they must take into consideration the several breakups of statutory meetings by the opposition commissioners that have severely hindered the work of that agency.

Taking that alone into consideration, the court should not allow themselves to fall into a trap of governing or mandating that independent agency as to what to do or should be done. Many may then want to say the courts should only advise GECOM on the time frame to work with. But it will be another sad day for Guyana if that is to happen because the court will then mandate an independent agency to work with what it says. I agree that because of the ruling of the CCJ on the no-confidence motion, elections must be held at its earliest, but that is only for GECOM to decide because all parties had already voted earlier for house-to-house registration to start and GECOM is preparing for such.

So we need to allow this independent agency to carry out its work without any interference. While we also need to tell GECOM elections must be held at its earliest.
The debate over the list is uncalled for because it is expired and no party should support anything that is expired because it is no good and will severely hurt us as citizens and as country. Any party who wants to use any corrupt or expired list has no good intention for its people or Guyana at large, but is just hungry and power driven to gain political power at all cost. I call on all my Guyanese brothers and sisters– don’t allow some to influence you in starting unwanted events that can affect all of us, especially our children who are the future. Let’s be united and allow due process to take its course.

I call on all right-thinking Guyanese who want free and fair elections to call on GECOM for such and we can only have such when the expired list is cleansed. I also call on all right-thinking Guyanese who want free and fair elections to call on the PPP’s Presidential Candidate to produce and provide to this nation his original qualifications before he could ask you for your support.

I firmly believe what goes for one goes for all. We cannot ask GECOM to be fair and free when we have a man who is allegedly using fake degrees to run for President of this land. So it is my firm and sound belief that if the courts are to mandate GECOM as an independent agency what to do then surely it will be a sad day for Guyana. Things can go anyway — remember illegal became legal in Guyana, no matter how long you are here illegally, you are still legal when found illegal.
Regards
Abel Seetaram