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Mohamed to take legal action against Govt. contractor for illegally occupying land

Sep 16, 2025
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Kaieteur News – Leader of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party and businessman, Azruddin Mohamed said he plans to take legal action against a government contractor who is occupying his private property to store heavy equipment and machinery at Zeelugt, Region Three.

According to a release on his Team Mohamed’s Facebook page, titled ‘PPP Government Escalates Political Victimisation Against Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed.’

The statement reads, “What you are looking at here is the most blatant form of political victimisation and abuse of property rights. This is a family property in Region Three that has been under transport for nearly 15 years under the name of Azruddin Mohamed. The precursor to this gross infringement of rights began when the PPP government during the campaign season illegally erected a massive billboard of Irfaan Ali on Mohamed’s private property without consent. That act of disregard has since escalated.”

According to the statement, immediately after GECOM officially declared the results of the general and regional elections, a government contractor by the name of “Romain Bhagwandin” moved his heavy machinery and equipment onto the Mohamed’s property.

Without any lease, title, or legal authority, the Mohameds explained that the contractor has been using it to store and run a business involving hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment openly and illegally squatting on private property.

“When told to vacate the property, Bhagwandin’s response was that Deodat Indar the Minister of Public Utilities and Aviation and the Village Council gave him permission to occupy Mohamed’s property,” the release explained.

“Neither the government minister nor the village council has any authority whatsoever over this property. Are the Mohameds now expected to go out of pocket to hire attorneys to remove this individual who is brazenly flouting the law under political protection?” the Mohameds argued.

In a telephone interview with this publication on Monday, Mohamed and his father Nazar Mohamed confirmed that the property is in Azruddin Mohamed’s name and that at no point in time was permission given to have his property used by the contractor.

The senior Mohamed informed this publication that he had contacted the contractor and asked him to come off their private property. According to him, the contractor informed him that he was given permission by the NDC and the public works ministry to use the land.

“He just went on the land as soon as they declare that PPP won the elections and he just went on the lands and he started to clear up the land and brought in all these equipment. I called him and he told me that he got permission from the council and he also got permission from ministry of public works,” he related.

According to him, “I called the Regional Chairman, Ayube and he said he knows nothing about that, I sent a message to Indar he read the messages but he didn’t respond.”

This publication was informed that the contractor has since cleared the land and has since applied loom, sand and crusher run on it.

Kaieteur News on Monday called the Regional Chairman, Ishan Ayube, who related that he called the Tuschen/ Uitvlugt NDC Chairman regarding this matter and he was informed that no permission was given to the contractor to use the Mohameds property.

Meanwhile, efforts to contact the minister proved futile.

When asked what actions will be taken to have the contractor removed from his property, Mohamed said, “We will take legal action, because he got to move his things off the land. We’re not going to allow them to bully us.”

Noting this is blatant political victimisation of the Mohameds, the release also stated that, “The opposition calls on the PPP government to immediately cease its campaign of intimidation and abuse of property rights. We appeal to all parties to act with integrity and to desist from any further illegal occupation of Mr. Mohamed’s property. The people of Guyana and the international community must take note: this is not simply a dispute over land, but yet another example of the PPP’s misuse of state influence to punish those who dare to challenge them.”

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