President still to provide records of farm lands acquisition and evidence of blackmail

Jul 10, 2026 News

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(Kaieteur News) President Irfaan Ali has failed to release full communications of alleged blackmail attempts towards him and verifiable financial records regarding his private highway farm, opting instead during a Thursday live address to dismiss the brewing controversy as a “sideshow” and a “distraction.”

The broadcast, delivered upon the President’s return from the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting in St. Lucia, directly contradicts previous official assertions that the administration would subject the evidence to independent examination. Despite a statement published by Newsroom explicitly noting that the President was “willing to make them [the text messages and communications] public” for independent scrutiny, Thursday’s live address offered no such disclosure.

Rather than presenting the full text messages, videos, or audio recordings, President Ali only paraphrased a tiny, vague fragment of a text message, quoting the sender, who he says is Nazar Mohamed as saying, “I went through during the election cycle… I refrained from releasing. But if you don’t end, if you don’t end all this madness, I will…”

Newsroom previously reported that Mohamed’s messages implied a demand for the Guyanese government to ease U.S.-requested extradition proceedings.

Mohamed has since denied those claims. “I categorically reject the president’s claim that I attempted to blackmail him,” Nazar Mohamed told this newspaper previously. “I challenge President Ali to release, in its entirety, the communication I sent to him on Friday morning.” The senior Mohamed maintained that the message contained no threats, no mention of blackmail, and no reference to legal sanctions or indictments. He further revealed that upon receiving the text message on Friday, President Ali attempted to place a phone call back to him, which Mohamed chose not to answer.

“I have nothing to hide,” Nazar Mohamed stated. “I invite the president to make the communication public and allow the people of Guyana to read it for themselves. Let the public judge the facts rather than rely on unfounded allegations.”

Furthermore, the President acknowledged that the unreleased materials contain severe implications that have not been formally processed through state law enforcement. “I’m not interested in the sideshows and the distraction and the videos that he sent to my phone and the recording… Some of which I believe has security implications,” President Ali stated during the broadcast.

This admission has sparked immediate public backlash, with Ronald Daniels, Attorney at Law, questioning “Isn’t the President testifying to a neglect of his duty as the Chief Citizen of this country, Commander of our Armed Forces, and our ultimate protector by failing to disclose and take the necessary action/s to address the security matters those messages raise?”

Financial Contradictions and the Integrity Commission

The address also failed to provide physical or documentary proof of disclosures made to the Integrity Commission or verification of the loans funding the agricultural venture. While official reports previously stated the farm’s assets and funding sources “are capable of verification through the relevant financial and regulatory records,” the public was left with competing narrative descriptions.

In Thursday’s video, President Ali stated, “My farm carries a huge loan, a huge loan, and everything has been, everything has been disclosed to the Integrity Commission, in and out of government.”

President Ali sought to distance his wealth from that of Azruddin Mohamed, stating, “I can tell you, unlike Azruddin Mohamed, who still have to account to Integrity Commission, unlike him, who did not have to take a single loan for the wealth he accumulated, I am not in that category or bracket.” The President asserted that his farm occupies lease lands on the highway under the exact conditions governing hundreds of other farms, claiming that Mohamed had “exaggerated the size of the farm” by more than double its actual acreage. He did not, however, state the actual acreage or name the financial institutions holding the “huge loans.”

Daniels further publicly challenged the President’s definition of accountability, publishing a list of 14 direct questions demanding immediate executive clarity including “When were the farmlands acquired?” and “What is the acreage of the farmlands?”

The President concluded his address by stating that he intends to go live directly from the farm in the future to showcase agricultural techniques, maintaining that his “conscience is clear.” For an expectant public and accountability watchdogs, however, virtual farm tours are unlikely to substitute for the missing bank records, Integrity Commission filings, and blackmail transcripts.

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• blackmail, farm lands, President Irfaan Ali, Records

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