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WIN leader’s vehicle seized for lack of insurance
…says govt. instructed insurance companies not to give him coverage
(Kaieteur News) – Leader of We Invest in Nationhood, Businessman, Azruddin Mohamed claims he is being punished twice under the weight of U.S.-triggered sanctions, alleging that Guyana’s Financial Intelligence Unit directed insurers to cut all ties with him, making it impossible to renew coverage for his personal vehicles. Yet on Friday, police not only stopped his wife, but also impounded one of the very vehicles for lacking the insurance he says the government has actively prevented him from obtaining. He described this latest move as “pure victimisation and evil.”
The Guyana Police Force impounds a Land Cruiser belonging to the Azruddin Mohamed.
Speaking with Kaieteur News, Mohamed said “Today (Friday), two of my vehicles they stopped.”
His wife was reportedly driving one and his driver was driving the other.
“After she dropped off the children at QC (Queens College) they drove behind her and stopped her, told her to drive towards Brickdam Police Station that is by Eve Leary”, Mohamed told Kaieteur News.
She was reportedly held there for two hours. “They went through the vehicle, search it, tints was a problem, obscure number plate is a problem, the insurance problem”, he adding that she was also charged.
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo
“She got to go to court on Wednesday”, Mohamed said. When his driver went to Eve Leary to pick her up police stopped him too.
“They checked the documents, the documents in order” Mohamed noted while relating “They charge him for obscure number plate and tint”. The driver too has to appear in court on Wednesday.
The WIN party leader labeled the move as “full political persecution and victimisation”.
The police force’s move to go after the Mohameds’ vehicles comes one day after Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo at his weekly party press-conference blamed Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken for allowing Mohamed to pull up at parliament in an “uninsured” Lamborghini.
Jagdeo at his press conference said, “So Stabroek news said that he brought his Lamborghini to show me now, this Lamborghini from what I gather does not have any insurance”
The VP continued, “…to drive on the road without insurance if you are a Guyanese, ordinary Guyanese, ordinary citizen, if the police catch you, you in trouble. You understand that.”
Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken
“If you hit down someone on the road without insurance you in big trouble but as I said before the arrogance and impunity, he drives the Lamborghini to the parliament to show Jagdeo that he can break the laws of the country”, the VP added.
He then went on to say, “I would hold the commissioner of police personally responsible if a child or anyone gets hit down on the road and get killed or maimed by that Lamborghini when it’s on the road. Hickin should face criminal charges too because he allows it.”
Meanwhile, in a subsequent statement issued on its Facebook Page, accused the government of weaponising state institutions and law enforcement against the WIN party leader.
“The international community must now confront a sobering reality. The PPP Government is weaponising state institutions, law enforcement, and public office against the leader of the opposition, his family, and political movement”, team Mohamed stated.
“This is not merely a question of insurance, traffic stops, or speeding tickets. It is the steady intrusion of power, the slow but deliberate encroachment on freedom and fairness. This is a politically orchestrated campaign of harassment designed to intimidate and silence.”
Team Mohamed called the vice president’s threat directed at the police commissioner “egregiously reckless.”
“The vice president’s public threat directed at Police Commissioner Hicken warning he will face criminal charges should any vehicle owned by the leader of the opposition’s family be involved in an accident is egregiously reckless and a blatant abuse of power, a frightening overreach, and a signal to the entire state apparatus that persecution is now policy”, Team Mohamed stated.
“How can a democratic nation justify targeting vehicles owned by one family, same vehicles now President once used, instructing the police to pull them over, and simultaneously prohibiting agencies from providing insurance coverage, then using the lack of insurance as justification for impoundment?” Team Mohamed questioned while adding “This is targeted harassment under the guise of enforcement”.
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The lawyers in Guyana must be dunces if this turns out to be anything more than a temporary nuisance. The WIN leader can pay a chauffeur of any vehicle to take him anywhere. But more importantly, 3rd party vehicle insurance is to protect the third party from injury from your vehicle should an accident happen. In some countries, or at least historically, the driver can lodge a bond instead of paying an insurance company. You mean the WIN leader can post bail in case he doesn’t turn up for his trial but he can’t afford to post a bond that should cover injury of a third party? The WIN leader should have some fun with this matter. Let it take long so the world can see what kind of country we have. The fact that insurance companies can take instructions from a government functionary who has no direct authority over it tells you what a joke Guyana is. First the banks, now the insurance companies. I hope the WIN leader is allowed to continue to buy water!