Attorney General Anil Nandlall has announced the government’s intention to pursue costs in the Forward Movement Guyana (FMG) failed ballot exclusion case, cautioning that ordinary citizens who front such matters will not be spared when ordered to pay.
Speaking on his Issues in the News programme on Tuesday, Nandlall said FMG is now taking the matter to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) despite losing the case at the High Court and the Court of Appeal, and racking up some $4 million in costs against Region Nine teacher Krystal Fisher.
“This is some ordinary Guyanese who is being used to front FMG. She has incurred costs now totalling millions, and FMG is now going one more step where, as I predict, they will lose and incur more costs,” he stated.
Nandlall accused FMG leader Amanza Walton-Desir of using the Region Nine teacher to front the case while bearing no responsibility for the sums incurred.
He said that Walton-Desir is not fronting the case or appearing in her capacity as a lawyer. “But you will hear, when we go against her (Krystal Fisher) for costs, that we are victimising an ordinary person. The costs will be pursued,” the Attorney General insisted.
Nandlall said that his office, as well as the Guyana Elections Commission, has until Friday to provide responses in the CCJ matter, which is set to commence on July 16.
FMG is seeking legal redress over its party’s logo being withheld from ballot papers in constituencies it did not contest in the September 1 General and Regional Elections.
