Prosecution witness Anieshaw Mohamed admitted under cross-examination on Wednesday that she never submitted key audio, video, or photographic evidence related to the 2020 elections to either the court or the police, as the election fraud trial continued before Acting Chief Magistrate Faith McGusty at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
When proceedings resumed, Mohamed, who had compiled a spreadsheet of alleged voting discrepancies in 2020, was questioned by defence attorney Nigel Hughes.
During questioning, the witness said she was unaware that some ballot boxes examined during the national recount lacked statutory documents. She also stated that she did not know whether ballot boxes were present at the Ashmins Building, which served as the GECOM command centre, for officials to examine.
Hughes further asked whether, during her time at GECOM, she observed any officials opening ballot boxes to verify their contents. Mohamed responded that she was not a counting agent.
The attorney then shifted focus to recordings allegedly captured at the command centre involving former Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield, former Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo, former PNCR Chairperson Volda Lawrence, and former Deputy Chief Elections Officer Roxanne Myers.
Mohamed confirmed that she had audio recordings of activities involving those individuals. However, under further questioning, she admitted that she neither presented the recordings to the court nor submitted them to the police. She also said she could not recall ever informing law enforcement about the existence of such recordings.
Additionally, Mohamed acknowledged that she never provided investigators or the court with any video recordings or photographs she had taken at the command centre. She agreed with Hughes that while she retained the original audio-visual material, she instead extracted audio from those recordings and combined it with photographs of Statements of Poll.
She further admitted that the photographs of the Statements of Poll were never submitted to the police.
Following Hughes’ cross-examination, attorney Ronald Daniels continued questioning the witness.
In response to questions about her professional background, Mohamed told the court that she currently serves as Director of Government Efficiency at the Office of the President, having been appointed in January 2026 by President Irfaan Ali.
She also confirmed that prior to that role, she served as Director of the Guyana Learning Channel, a position she assumed on August 26, 2020, shortly after the PPP/C government took office. Before holding those positions, she said she owned a telecommunications company.
When asked whether she had any formal qualifications in broadcasting, education, curriculum development, or media prior to her appointment to the Guyana Learning Channel, Mohamed said she did not. She also stated that she does not recall applying for the position.
Daniels later questioned Mohamed about her views on the criminal justice system and whether she understood that the magistrate is the decision-maker in the proceedings. However, these questions drew repeated objections from prosecutor, King’s Counsel Darshan Ramdhani, who argued that they were irrelevant to the case.
The witness was also questioned about a social media post she made on Tuesday which, according to the defence, suggested that the accused should be convicted.
The trial involves nine individuals who are facing 19 conspiracy charges stemming from allegations of attempts to manipulate the results of the March 2020 general and regional elections.
