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The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has taken a decision to replace controversial Returning Officer for Region Four, Jaigobin Mohabir; but Mohabir yesterday said that he knew nothing of the decision.Mohabir’s appointment was a major concern for opposition political parties over claims that Mohabir, as Deputy Returning Officer, had signed Statements of Poll in the 1997 elections when he should not have done so.The Joint Opposition Political Parties (JOPP) had written GECOM Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally pointing out that Mohabir was cited in the written judgement of Justice Claudette Singh,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, in the Esther Pereira Elections Petition case of 1998.“The Chief Elections Officer then went on to say that the law does not make provision for the rewriting exercise neither does it make any provision for a parallel system. He was aware that one Deputy Returning Officer,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, Jaigobin Mohabir,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, signed for a Returning Officer.”In an advertisement in today’s newspaper, GECOM named Deolall Ramlall as the Returning Officer with his office at Guyana Public Service Union Sports Complex,China Jerseys Wholesale, Thomas Lands, Georgetown.Contacted for comment, Mohabir said that he went to work yesterday as usual but returned home early after feeling unwell.He said he was not aware that he was being replaced.“They must have taken that decision when I left,Cheap Jerseys From China,” Mohabir told Kaieteur News via telephone.Commissioners on GECOM had earlier voted to keep Mohabir despite the concerns of the opposition parties, and it is now unclear what prompted the decision to remove him.“The run up to November 28 is not going to be smooth and easy if they insist on maintaining Mr Mohabir and if they insist on permitting the PPP to get away with the offences they are committing on every possible occasion,” APNU executive Dr Rupert Roopnaraine said in mid-October.“We will not rest until Mr Mohabir is removed as the returning officer for Region Four…,Authentic NFL Jerseys Wholesale,” Roopnaraine declared. |
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