The Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU) is objecting to the appointment of Carol Sooba as acting Town Clerk, warning that Local Government Minister, Norman Whittaker that if his decision is not overturned City Hall could face “serious disruption.”

“Sir, this move constitutes a massive super session at the Georgetown Municipality and will create serious disruption to the works of the council,” GLGOU President Dale Beresford told Whittaker in a letter on Wednesday.

Beresford said Sooba, who is substantively the Legal Officer, is unqualified and comparatively inexperienced for the post of Town Clerk.

Whittaker on Wednesday rejected the Council’s decision on Monday that substantive Public Relations Officer, Royston King act as Town Clerk. Substantive Town Clerk, Yonette Pluck is among six officers sent on leave to pave the way for a police probe into alleged financial irregularities.

The GLGOU President, saying his organisation was “extremely aggrieved” with Sooba’s appointment- one that it “neither agrees nor accepts.”

Beresford urged the Local Government Minister to review his decision against the background of Sooba’s qualifications and experiences.

“Taking into careful consideration that among the employees of the Municipality of Georgetown are other persons who are holders of tertiary level qualifications and vast years of service and are therefore more suitable to be appointed acting Town Clerk,” he said.

Head of the Municipality’s Personnel Committee, Oscar Clarke, as first reported here, said Sooba has been already deemed unfit for the position.