Government-nominated Commissioners at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) have tabled motions seeking the dismissal of the embattled Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, his deputy, Roxanne Myers, and the Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo. But it should not have taken motions to seek their dismissal, says Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall.
The AG, during his “Issues in the News” programme last evening, said that in “any other normal society” the trio would have been given marching orders without even requiring motions.
“In any other society – in any normal society – a motion, or motions ought not to have been required to be laid for the dismissal of these three…The world saw what they did, we all saw what they did, courts ruled condemning what they did, declaring what they did as illegal and unlawful. In those circumstances, they ought to have been dismissed without cause instantaneously upon the declaration of the results of the election. But Guyana is not a normal place and GECOM is not a normal institution,” Nandlall said.
The conduct of Lowenfield, Myers, and Mingo during the March 2020 polls is under question. They have all faced charges of misconduct.
The AG said that despite Lowenfield already standing in hot water, he sought to ‘block’ the Statements of Poll and Statements of Recount from getting into the hands of the prosecution in his criminal matter.
This ‘wickedness’ Nandlall argues, is another reason why the CEO must be dismissed. He reiterated that his People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) will not go to another election if Lowenfield, Myers, and Mingo are still part of the electoral machinery.
