Chartered Accountant and attorney Christopher Ram says he is boycotting GECOM’s planned house-to-house registration because it is unconstitutional and he is calling on fellow Guyanese of similar conviction to do likewise.
In a full page advertisement in today’s Stabroek News, Ram said that the exercise which is intended to start tomorrow is being done under an order signed by former GECOM Chairman James Patterson whose appointment the Caribbean Court of Justice found on June 18 was unconstitutional and resultantly void. “He had no authority to issue such an Order”, Ram declared.
Ram further charged that the exercise is not intended to register persons but to deregister Guyanese who are eligible as electors under the constitution of Guyana.
He added that the exercise is intended to further stymie the no confidence motion by the National Assembly on December 21, 2018 and the edict by the highest court of the land.
“This exercise is a violation of the rule of law which underpins the Constitution of Guyana and the democratic rights of Guyanese to elections and the duty of a Government to submit itself to the electorate.
“This exercise shows that the constant refrain by David Granger that he would respect the Constitution and the Courts to have been no more than duplicity and deception intended to delay elections in violation of the No Confidence Motion”.
Ram charged that the house-to-house exercise demonstrates that GECOM has become a tool of the administration.
He declared that he would not participate in the exercise and said he hoped that persons of like mind do the same.