OPINION: Mohamed worried about extradition; Jagdeo should worry more

Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 July 2025, 1:35 by Writer

By GHK Lall

“Azruddin Mohamed worried about extradition -Jagdeo” (Demerara Waves Online News, July 13, 2025). From Friday the 13th to Sunday the 13th. Congratulations are due Guyana’s greatest political doctor, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo; Cheddi Jagan is banished to second place. For the first time in over three decades of senior government roles, he said something with merit. If the WIN man wasn’t worried, then something is wrong with him. Nonetheless, there’s a problem for Dr. Jagdeo and the PPP: both should worry even more about what the youngster has in his holster, the skeletons he could exhume, and put them before the Yanks. Barbados would have been chapter one. Consider the following, fellow Guyanese. Fellow Americans, too.

When a man could put one of his most prized possessions at the disposal of the 2020 PPP, then it couldn’t have been the only asset gifted during times of brotherly love. A Lamborghini can travel at speeds upwards of 150 kilometers an hour. So, too, other tools made of steel and other materials, capable of traveling even faster could have been summoned to duty, and delivered in response. Guyanese like to pretend towards shortsightedness and short memories. My duty is to help. Just as how Mohamed is worried about extradition, Mr. Jagdeo and the PPP should be much more fearful of what he can share about phantoms, partnerships, and other perversities with a red coating. Due to the history of those kinds of squads in Guyana, the vice president must be worried, which is what he has manifested since the arrival of Mohamed the Younger on the political stage. Now here this.

Money is power. On Wall Street, information is power because it makes unlimited money possible. Insider trading, insider arrangements. And what was Mr. Mohamed, if not an insider, with few closer and higher than he? I think that this man from WIN has enough in his possession to make the revelations of the charming journalist from VICE News look like scratches in the discovery and knowledge divisions. She had to dig to find skeletons (allegedly). Mohamed the Younger has to know who the skeletons are, and what he has on them. I urge Dr. Jagdeo, and the other, bigger fella with the big bag of credentials, to weigh long and seriously something else, another fact of life.

When a man could be so much of an intimate friend as to donate hundreds of millions to a political party’s campaign wallet, then he should be even wiser and get himself some insurance. In America that’s termed CYA. In Guyana, I call that cover your armpits. Body odors do have a way of escaping, attracting, and repelling lots of people. Mohamed the Younger has already demonstrated how visionary he is relative to skeletons in closets. Recall his alleged telephone archives that made a head of state lose his memory, with his footing on the ladder appearing noticeably shaky, then shakier. What else does the newcomer have on the political old-timers? How many others in the PPP hierarchy does he have similarly dead to rights? In doing my civic duty, I recommend to Dr. Jagdeo that he has the Tylenol ready to ease the headaches that the man could cause for the PPP.

The fact that he has been sanctioned, and the government is still unmoving and circling say plenty. From Attorney General Nandlall to Home Affairs Minister Benn to the former president himself, worry is now their sticky face conditioner. So, who is more worried than Mr. Mohamed? Putting on my American wig at this point, it would be highly improper of Uncle Sam to step in, stick out its foot, and trip the OFAC-sanctioned Guyanese, now a feared political contender. Do I hear shouts of internal meddling? Do I hear claims of tampering with the free and fair processes of democratic elections? I think all should calm down, and face the situation soberly.

First, if the US wanted to drag Mohamed back to stateside, it would have been a done deal. Second, if the PPP of Jagdeo and Nandlall had the machismo (a word starting with B fits) to extradite Mohamed, he would have been history. No need for baseball bats and Lima Sands and Belle West, and such friendly receptions. Just the next American Airlines flight out, with due process given the shortest thrift. Roger that! And all should know what I mean, and who. Here is an American history lesson for locals. The US has been comfortable dealing with such illustrious figures as the Shah of Iran, Panama’s Manuel Noriega, and Chile’s Augusto Pinochet. So, why not Mohamed, Jr? Remember Barbados! Mohamed should be worried. Jagdeo, even more. There comes a time that the US cuts loose those who are too much to carry, notwithstanding the freest hand to Exxon and all.