THE order of the Caribbean Court of Justice with respect to the Case Management Conference which was held on Wednesday must be respected and upheld by both parties in the appeal of the extradition case involving the Mohameds.
I will reserve my criticism until after this new challenge brought by the Mohameds to block the extradition and comital proceedings from taking place in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and to escape justice.
I said that this decision of the CCJ must be respected because, in the long run, it will engender public confidence and trust.
I am firmly of the view that this desperate attempt by the Mohameds will fail too just as they have failed in the case of Guyana’s court systems. The appeal to the CCJ has no merit. It is void of any sound legal reasoning or logic. It is vexatious and based upon a false sense of consciousness.
The Mohameds are gravely wrong if they think the CCJ will buy into the arguments of alleged political persecutions and perceived biasness. I agree with Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall that extradition can never become a safe refuge for fugitive offenders who are using politics as a shield to ward off the State for committing them to face justice. If that is so, then every potential person who is a candidate for extradition simply has to enter politics, claim political biasness and persecution, approach the courts and that is the end of the matter.
That could never be common law, treaty law or any law. If anything, the CCJ will likely re-enforce the rulings unanimously of the lower Guyanese courts.
If it does, the State might need to get a new magistrate to hear this matter considering that CCJ agrees that the matters should be heard with dispatch and urgency. Hear me out. The case started in November 2025 and to date, it is not completed.
More than eleven cases brought by the Mohameds have been disposed of by the higher courts and the magistrate has not completed committal proceedings yet in the matter that is before her.
And she presided over what could only be described as a clown-show and a circus in her court room which saw a doctor who allegedly provided the “fake” dengue fever diagnosis for Azruddin Mohamed testifying that the U.S-indicted businessman needs two weeks of rest to recover. This is delay upon delay.
No one can convince the Guyanese public that this is not trickery and fraud. Pure shenanigans occurred right in the face of the magistrate who I think is allowing it to continue for far too long. Any objective-thinking member of the public would be concerned about this magistrate’s handling of the court, especially after it was claimed by Mohamed back in November 2025 that the matter will be tied up in Guyana’s courts for five years and that he will eventually get a ruling in his favour. So, what seems to be happening here is the abuse of court processes and the mental facilities of our Guyanese public with this Mohamed matter.
I hope the US, and Guyana government will get this matter over with and move on with the other important matters. In any case, the main event will debut April 21, 2026.
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