‘When the Paymaster Spoke, the Powerful Went Silent’

Feb 14, 2026 Letters

Dear Editor,

For nearly a week, the triad of PPP power—Jagdeo, Ali, and Nandlall—has been uncharacteristically quiet. These are men who usually treat a microphone like an oxygen tank, yet they now seem to be suffocating under the weight of Mohamed’s receipts. The “crooks,” as many have long whispered, are no longer hidden in shadows; they are being named on the very floor of Parliament by the man who allegedly signed their cheques.

The myth of the PPP as a grassroots movement—driven by the grit and sacrifice of ordinary supporters—has collapsed under the heft of Mohamed’s revelations. When he declared that he provided “hundreds of millions, if not billions” between 2015 and 2020, the illusion shattered. This was not a party sustained by the pennies of cane cutters and market vendors; it was financed by the gold of a man they now brand a “sanctioned criminal.” The duplicity is stunning: they took his money when it paved their route back to power, but once he sought a seat in the House, they wrapped themselves in the handcuffs of “righteousness.”

Equally revealing was the silence that followed in the National Assembly. When Mohamed uttered the word “bankrolled,” the usual chorus of hecklers fell mute. Those who spend their parliamentary careers drowning out dissent with rehearsed interruptions suddenly found their voices paralyzed. There was no laughter, no mock outrage, no “point of order.” There was only that heavy, knowing stillness that comes when truth cracks the veneer. In that moment, the PPP’s carefully painted image—as a vanguard of progress and integrity—peeled away, exposing what some now see as a political entity subsidized by Mohamed’s enterprises.

Then came the SOCU raid—a move so clumsy it could only be read as panic. Within days of Mohamed’s disclosures, officers were dispatched to storm his shuttered business, supposedly in search of “illegal operations.” But the timing was too conspicuous, too rehearsed to pass as coincidence. It was not an investigation; it was a performance. The irony is brutal: as SOCU searched the empty offices of Mohamed’s company, they ignored his pointed invitation to “go search Freedom House” for the hundreds of millions he claims to have delivered there.

Now, the public conversation has shifted. No one is asking whether the PPP is compromised—the question is how deep that compromise runs. If Mohamed was indeed the “main support,” what did he purchase with that loyalty? How many government decisions were conceived not in Cabinet rooms but in gold‑plated boardrooms? And if one businessman could bankroll a party’s return to power, how many others are quietly tugging the strings of the presidency?

The truth, once revealed, is merciless. The leadership can no longer hide behind the prestige of office or the complexity of governance. They stand exposed—not as the stewards of national progress they claim to be, but as a group accused of using the wealth of a man, they now disown to reclaim the state. Their present silence is not strategy; it is suffocation. It is the sound of a party gasping, not because of Mohamed’s alleged lies, but because the truth has drained the last breath of credibility from their ranks. This is more than a scandal; it is a forensic unmasking—a confrontation with the unsettling possibility that a political machine once hailed as the people’s champion sold the soul of the nation to the highest bidder and is now scrambling to arrest the bidder because the bill has finally come due.

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