Azruddin Mohamed promises to call in FBI to investigate Adrianna Younge’s death

Last Updated on Sunday, 13 July 2025, 21:08 by Writer

Leader of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) political party, Azruddin Mohamed on Saturday said if he wins the September 1 general and regional elections, he would call in the United States (US) Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) to probe the death of 11-year-old Adrianna Younge.

“Come the second of September, I’ll get the FBI to investigate that murder,” he said to applause. Two autopsies by four foreign pathologists, including two handpicked by the girl’s family, have not concluded foul play. The Guyana Police Force (GPF) said the first autopsy showed that the girl died by drowning.

Younge’s body was found in a pool at the Double Day Hotel, Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo, one day after the GPF had said that she was seen leaving in an identifiable car.

Taking his cue from supporters during a brief address in Linden during a motorcade, he questioned why Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken was still on the job although he has past the retirement age of 55. The GPF later apologised for issuing that erroneous statement.

Mr Mohamed promised that under a WIN administration, people would be able to protest peacefully. In 2012, three persons were shot dead during protests in Linden against the removal of an electricity subsidy and two others were killed in April 2025 in the same town. “We don’t want the officers to shoot indiscriminately. We don’t want that. We don’t want criminals to lead us. We want honourable people to lead us,” he said.

Mr Mohamed was last year sanctioned by the United States (U.S.) for allegedly evading more than US$50 million in taxes payable to the Guyana government on the export of more than 10,000 kilogrammes of gold. He is also before the court on charges of tax evasion and false declaration on the importation of his Lamborghini luxury car.

Saying that Guyana was receiving GY$1.8 billion to GY$2 billion daily in oil revenues, Mr Mohamed said WIN is Guyana’s “only multi-ethnic party”, he promised to provide thousands of free houses, increased wages and salaries and pensions, higher cash grants for children and investment in sport. “Rest assured, under my administration you will live a better life and you’ll get more,” he said.

Mr Mohamed has been attracting many people across the racial divide in areas that are considered strongholds of the People’s National Congress Reform’s A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC). However, PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo has repeatedly shrugged off suggestions that WIN could hurt his party’s chances at the upcoming elections.

Prior to the imposition of the U.S. sanctions, Mr Mohamed and his father, Nazar ‘Shell’ Mohamed had enjoyed very close relations with the PNCR/APNU the PPPC.