Why PPP/C’s Selective Shackles on the Mohameds Expose a Regime in Retreat

By Timothy Hendricks- Fellow Guyanese patriots, workers, and freedom fighters – today, as the iron fist of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) regime clamps down once more on the necks of ordinary citizens daring to challenge the status quo, we must raise our voices in thunderous outrage. On this fateful morning of October 31, 2025, the state apparatus – that bloated beast of bureaucratic overreach and political favoritism – descended upon Nazar Mohamed and his son Azruddin, arresting them like common criminals in the dead of night.

Warrants waved like red flags, the Guyana Police Force, ever the loyal hounds of the Jagdeo-Ali cabal, dragged these men from their homes, all in service to an impending U.S. extradition on charges of gold smuggling and corruption. But here is the rotten core of this farce: where is Mae Thomas in these chains? Why, in the name of equity and the rule of law that our forebears bled for, has the PPP/C spared its own insider from the gallows of accountability?

Let us peel back the veil of hypocrisy that shrouds this administration, comrades. The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) laid bare the sordid web in June 2024, sanctioning not just the Mohameds and their enterprise but also Mae Thomas – the very emblem of PPP/C cronyism. As Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Thomas allegedly peddled influence like cheap trinkets, trading cash bribes and lavish gifts for favors to Mohamed’s Enterprise. Weapons permits fast-tracked, passports rubber-stamped, contract bids greased – all while Nazar Mohamed, a PPP neighbourhood councillor no less, funneled alleged illicit gold flows that starved our nation’s coffers of over $50 million in taxes.

Thomas, a card-carrying Central Committee member of the ruling party, was grilled at Miami International Airport, her phone seized like contraband. Yet, what befell her? A cushy transfer to the Ministry of Labour, a quiet leave, and a resignation from party leadership that reeks of damage control, not justice. No arrest, no dawn raid, no public pillorying. Just the soft landing reserved for the elite who whisper sweet nothings in the ears of power.

This is no mere oversight, my people – it is a textbook display of double standards, the kind that festers in the underbelly of authoritarian drift. The PPP/C preaches anti-corruption sermons from the mountaintop, wielding the state like a cudgel against opposition voices and small-time hustlers. Remember the bank account closures of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) candidates, led by Azruddin himself, or the relentless hounding of APNU/AFC dissidents? Yet when the finger points inward, to a high-ranking operative entangled in the same indictment spanning back to 2017 – predating even this regime’s return – the machinery grinds to a halt.

Why arrest the Mohameds with theatrical zeal, complying with U.S. extradition demands as if to burnish international credentials, while Thomas lounges in impunity? Is it because she wears the party’s scarlet letter not as a mark of shame, but as a shield of solidarity? The Mohameds, once PPP benefactors with rumoured donations greasing campaign wheels, now serve as scapegoats in a desperate bid to deflect from the rot within. Their “crimes” – under-declared gold exports, evaded duties – mirror the very extractive capitalism the PPP/C claims to champion for “the people,” yet only when it suits the narrative of selective persecution.

And mark my words: this targeted witch-hunt against the Mohameds reeks of political myopia, a blunder that will boomerang with electoral fury. Bail set at $150,000 each? Extradition proceedings that drag through Guyana’s creaky courts? The Mohameds, battle-hardened entrepreneurs with deep roots in our communities, will not crumble quietly. Their legal arsenal – bolstered by King’s Counsel and international scrutiny – will expose the farce, turning every hearing into a referendum on PPP/C hypocrisy. Already, whispers of political motivation echo from the Attorney General’s denials, but the people see through the smoke. This is targeted vengeance against a family that dared pivot from party patrons to independent challengers via WIN, threatening the one-party stranglehold in the 2025 polls. The regime’s fear is palpable: by isolating the Mohameds while coddling Thomas, they’ve handed ammunition to every opposition firebrand, every aggrieved miner, every youth weary of elite impunity.

Rise up, Guyana! Guyanese demand not just answers, but action – a full accounting for Thomas, an end to this two-tiered tyranny where the powerful pirouette free while the accused are paraded in fetters. The PPP/C’s gamble on division sows the seeds of its own defeat; the Mohameds’ courtroom saga will be the scythe that harvests unity against corruption’s throne. Let history record: we, the sovereign masses, will not be divided. We will not be silenced. Justice for all, or justice for none – the revolution of accountability begins now.