NO self-respecting Chairperson of GECOM worth their salt can rationally justify their inaction and reluctance to discipline the culpable staff when after nearly four months is about to elapse where they were blatantly and barefacedly attempting to rig the 2020 elections. What is equally more amazing is that these culprits are still on the job. This criterion for the Chairperson of GECOM to be a judge or have judge-like qualities is pure balderdash. What we need in the Chairperson is a person who is ethical, impartial and has a demonstrative background of decisive leadership ability, coupled with the skills to conceptualise and oversee fair and free elections. The timidity of the present Chairperson has been publicly demonstrated throughout the gruelling five months when the attempted riggers were in full flow. If Madam Chairperson had intervened in a timely and decisive manner, a lot of the heartaches we would not have suffered. It is time for Madam Chair to stop warming the chair and start the disciplinary procedure against the band of riggers. They have flouted and breached a host of the organisational procedures such as the inability to produce the original statements of poll for Region Four; deliberately falsifying Region Four statements of poll on a fabricated spreadsheet; senior functionaries publicly endorsing the falsified spreadsheet; refusing not once, but twice, to follow instructions from a superior officer; declaration of results inconsistent with the recount, etc. There is a clause in every employment contract that says, “We have lost confidence in your ability to perform your functions to the standards of the organization.” It is time to put that clause into effect. Madam Chairperson needs to overcome her reluctance and embark on disciplining the coterie of riggers, replace them with competent and professional people and prepare for the local government elections due next year. To act in less a manner is tantamount to a dereliction of duty on her part. Time to once more step up to the plate Madam Chair. Time to clean the house.

Your Sincerely,
Reggie Bhagwandin