In the wake of severe US sanctions last month on two gold dealers, more questions are being asked about how their company, Mohamed’s Enterprise was awarded the contract to build the Ministry of Home Affairs’ Fire Station Headquarters when its bid was $210m above the engineer’s estimate and was the highest bid.
Father and son businessmen, Nazar Mohamed and Azruddin Mohamed, along with the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Mae Toussaint Jr Thomas were last month sanctioned by the United States Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) for corruption.
Toussaint Jr Thomas was the Permanent Secretary in 2021 at the time a $648 million contract was awarded to the Mohameds for the construction of the new Guyana Fire Service Headquarters on Homestretch Avenue, in Georgetown, and for one lot of work at the Lusignan prison. Prior to these contracts Mohamed’s Enterprise had not engaged in this type of construction work.
