GECOM IT Manager recounts efforts to safeguard SOPs

Aneal Giddings testified before the Presidential CoI into the March 2020 elections on Thursday

Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Information Technology (IT) manager Aneal Giddings has said although he tried to safeguard election materials, including Statement of Polls (SOPs) from the March 2, 2020 elections, then Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers accused him of breaching emergency protocols.

“She (Myers) asked me ‘Aneal are you doing something unlawful with the SOPs?’ And I told her I was simply analysing them so they can be sent to her office,” Giddings disclosed on Thursday when he appeared before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the 2020 elections.