Former Deputy Returning Officer (DRO), Paul Jaisingh, yesterday told the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into events around the March 2020 general elections that he was assaulted by a party agent and had received a death threat from a Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) staff member at the Ashmins building on March 4th.
He said that these events occurred when he arrived at the building – which housed the District Four office- and after assisting the Information Technology (IT) Officer, Enrique Livan, with inserting figures into a spreadsheet.
Jaisingh, who identified himself as one of the DROs during the March 2nd 2020 elections, and at that time was responsible for uplifting all Statements of Poll (SOPs) from his assigned polling stations on the lower East Coast of Demerara and transporting them to the Returning Officer’s (RO) office, said that when he was called back to assist with the SOPs on March 4 at the Ashmins building, he was “harshly chucked” by APNU+AFC member, James Bond. He added that the words “Yuh gun dead tonight,” were later whispered in his ear by one of the GECOM female staffers.