Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday accused Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield of trying to prevent international assistance from reaching the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
“The UNDP has offered assistance in the IT (information technology) area and that’s an area that we badly need assistance in to have oversight over the registration, the tabulation, the quality of the list etcetera and when he met with the people he said I don’t need help in that area I need help in the media monitoring,” he told reporters at his weekly press conference.
Asked for evidence to support the accusation Jagdeo said that he has been speaking to persons in several areas and knows that the UN has been trying to offer IT support for ages, as long as two years ago.