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The Mohameds
Editorial…
Kaieteur News- We will be franker, bolder in the subject chosen today with the position taken. Guyanese who are familiar with our over three decades of fearless journalism work should not be surprised. The subject is the Mohamed family and the barrage of allegations suddenly dumped on its members, the straits in which those leave them. Though this is sure to rub the PPPC Government and Vice President Jagdeo the wrong way, there is no choice but to travel along the road chosen. What is the true fault line of the Mohameds, the father-son combination? Why have they transformed almost overnight into these big problem citizens? What is really at the heart of their current troubles: that they are lawbreakers, as alleged, or that they are recognized as serious political competitors?
Once, the Nazar Mohamed and Azruddin Mohamed, were seen as model citizens, the toast of the PPPC Government. From all appearances, they did everything right and by the book, with the Guyana Government reporting no problems with either of them. All that underwent a sea change in recent months, where their world has been turned upside down. Powerful and crippling arms of the government have been directed at them. They will have to decide on what is their best response, their best defense. We can’t do that for them, so they must shoulder their burdens, get ready to fight their battles, mostly by themselves, while utilising the assets available to them.
If they had broken the laws of this country years ago, the Mohameds should have been charged there and then. It is how the law operates in a fair and just society, because it is held out as blindfolded. Since neither of the two was charged before, how is it that their alleged violations of the law are only being dredged up now? Was the PPPC Government, through the institutions of the State that it controls, aiding and abetting, and covering up, the lawbreaking of the Mohameds only now surfacing? The US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) shocked Guyanese by slapping sanctions on the Mohameds and the businesses they own. A fair question is what if OFAC did not target the Mohameds and there were no sanctions? The automatic follow-up question has much traction: would the Mohameds have been charged with breaking any of Guyana’s laws? For now, we ignore the troublesome issue of why the US is educating and seemingly guiding the PPPC Government on which of Guyana’s laws have been violated.
All the time, that gorilla of a question still weighs heavily, all 800-lbs of it: are powerful State enforcement arms being used to encircle the Mohameds for falling afoul of Guyana’s laws? Or, is the real agenda because Azruddin Mohamed is viewed as a likely political competitor of strong and worrying standing? It is apparent that he has some level of support across a wide cross-section of Guyana. In a country, where the difference between winning and losing elections is so thin as to be invisible (if not uncountable), votes lost to newcomers in the waiting, such as Azruddin Mohamed, represent a situation that cannot be allowed to remain unaddressed. That threat has to be shut down by the firmest measures, and by any means. We have seen what elections have done to this country in the past. It is where nothing is off-limits and there are no innocents. In this regard, the PPPC Government has accumulated a record that is now second to none in dirty tricks. Whatever has to be done will be done, and whatever resources of the State have to be unleashed, that too is assured.
What Guyanese, the voting public, are left with is how the Constitutional provisions of freedom to form, freedom to associate, and freedom to participate in a clean process being subject to the worst assaults. For example, as soon as the publisher of this newspaper hinted that he was weighing entering the political field as a candidate in this year’s elections, the ugly head of State ads was dug up and brandished menacingly. We ask if something similar is at work with the Mohameds. That is, where power is distorted to neutralize potential competitors.
(The Mohameds)
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