Going Live With a “Lie” – A Fumble or A Stumble?

Dear Editor,

[Thursday] , President Irfaan Ali went on a live broadcast and told the nation that the size of his farm was “not even half” of what had been claimed — in other words, under 75 acres.

That statement collapses under the weight of basic, verifiable evidence.

Using Google Earth’s polygon measurement tool, We traced the full visible cleared footprint of the property at approximately 6°20’44”N, 58°1’W. The result: 155.0 acres (627,128.62 m²), with a perimeter of 3,502.71 metres.

𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛.

𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙛.

𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚.

Let’s be clear about what that means: a sitting Head of State publicly minimized the scale of a personal project in a way that is directly contradicted by open-source, independently verifiable data.

Even more striking, this measurement aligns almost perfectly with the ~150-acre figure cited by the Leader of the Opposition — within a margin of about 3%. In other words, what was dismissed as exaggerated appears, in fact, to be accurate.

So the issue here is no longer about acreage.

It is about credibility.

When a President makes a definitive claim on a live platform — and that claim can be so easily tested and disproven using publicly available tools — it raises serious questions about honesty, transparency, and respect for the intelligence of the public.

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘.

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩.

𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚.

𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙.

The images attached show the traced boundary and calculated area.

The public can see for themselves.

Yours truly,

Hemdutt Kumar