People’s National Party Candidate for South West St. Ann, Danishka Williams, has joined the call for the reinstatement of the Office of the Political Ombudsman.
This, following what she says, is the repeated removal and destruction of her campaign material, including poster boards throughout the Constituency.
Ms. Williams describes the act as one which undermines democratic principles and fair campaigning.
She claims that the most recent incident happened on Easter Monday.
Ms. Williams says these alleged incidents have again brought the issue regarding the political ombudsman to the fore.
A bill was passed last year to subsume the Office of the Political Ombudsman into the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ).
It, however, was not passed without objection from the Opposition People’s National Party.
Since then, there have been calls, including from former political ombudsman Donna Parchment Brown, for the office to be reinstated.