Former Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers yesterday appeared at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2020 General and Regional Elections but declined to testify.
Myers, who is facing elections-related charges, joins a list of employees of the GECOM Secretariat and others who have invoked their right not to testify at the inquiry.
The CoI will continue today at 9 am.
Former Region Four Police Commander, Edgar Thomas on Monday returned to the stand and insisted that ex-Top Cop, Leslie James had instructed him to clear the Ashmins building on March 5th, 2020. In testifying again, Thomas said that James was a “stranger to the truth”.
The CoI is a result of a promise by President Irfaan Ali to investigate the attempt to rig the March 2020 polls in favour of the former APNU+AFC government. Five months after the March 2nd 2020 polls and after a series of legal battles, Ali was finally declared the winner of the presidential elections.
The CoI is mandated to pay particular attention to District Four, which was the epicentre of attempts to rig the polls.
