Georgetown: Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission Dr. Steve Surujbally has fired back at A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and their affiliates calling their demands a ruse and has stated that the calls for him to resign will fall on deaf ears as he is going nowhere.
Dr. Surujbally says that it is unfair to use the Commission as a “whipping boy” for politicking and grandstanding given all that has been put in place by the commission as it relates to ensuring its integrity. He also called the actions by those that picketed the homes of the Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Gocool Boodhoo and himself as “crossing the line” noting that the “terrifying” experience has been particularly traumatizing to the children affected. “When I received that call from Mrs. Boodhoo, the wife of the CEO, the woman was shattered…this cannot be right.” He explained also that when the protesters showed up at his residence he was at the time also with a colleague/friend trying to recuperate from a sick-bed. Dr Surujbally says that it is not easy, for especially the children, to see hundreds of people outside of the home singing carols and “wishing me a Merry Christmas and dispersing it with accusations and acrimony…that can’t be right…children crying, for me is a no no.”
He said that this is one of the reasons he has taken up the matter this seriously with certain politicians who might have misused certain children…”coming to my home cannot be right!” he asserted.
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