Leader of the Opposition, Azruddin Mohamed, today called for President Irfaan Ali to resign over alleged corruption in relation to the President’s massive farm in the back lands along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway. The President has already dismissed the accusation of corruption and has promised to offer a tour of the sprawling farming facility when he returns from the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting.

But the Opposition Leader is maintaining his position that the President must explain how he was able to acquire the more the 150 acres of land and develop farming facilities that appear to dwarf many of the Government’s own farming projects. Mohamed has pegged the costs attached to the project at being more than $5 Billion.

While the President in an initial response to the claims did not put a price tag to his private investment, he said he was able to access loans from the banks for the project. He said everyone knows of his love for farming and his investments in farming.

Opposition Leader Mohamed, is however, maintaining that everything related to the “secretive” project, from the construction of roads to the clearing of lands and the construction of the farming facilities, all point to alleged acts of corruption.

“The Guyanese people deserves better and you are not a leader for the people. It is a shame to see the leaders of the PPP destroy the party of a true son of the soil, Dr. Cheddi Jagan. I have been receiving an outpouring of calls and messages from farmers, from housewives, from cattle ranchers, from Guyanese from every walk of life about their outrage and being literally fed up with the massive corruption of the PPP Government, including the President”, Mohamed said in a video recorded statement.

Mohamed said it is impossible for a man who has worked as a public servant for all of his life to be able to amass 150 acres of land and a multi-billion dollar “luxury estate”.

On Sunday, the President said the land was acquired long before he assumed the Presidency five years ago.

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