GEORGETOWN, Guyana – November 8, 2026: Cross-opposition political groups in Guyana are amplifying calls for a fully independent, internationally supervised forensic investigation into a high-profile October 12-13 shooting incident that has thrown public trust in national law enforcement institutions into crisis, after newly surfaced video footage directly contradicts the official account released by the Guyana Police Force (GPF).
At the center of the controversy is Senior Superintendent Prem Narine, the GPF’s intelligence chief, who previously stated in an October 13 press release that he only discharged his service weapon after hearing an apparent gunshot fired from a passing black Toyota Allion (license plate PXX 5300) near his residence, prompting him to take cover before firing in the vehicle’s direction. The newly circulated unedited footage, however, shows a man standing behind a perimeter fence in Narine’s yard for more than seven minutes, firing multiple rounds directly at the passing black vehicle without taking any cover, before fleeing in a waiting unmarked white car that pursued the departing vehicle. No muzzle flash is visible coming from the black car in the footage, which lacks a verified timestamp to confirm the exact time of the incident.
The Alliance For Change (AFC), A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian Dr. Terrence Campbell, and the main opposition WIN (We Invest in Nationhood) party all issued coordinated statements Sunday demanding an external, politically unconnected probe to verify the footage’s authenticity – including confirming it was not generated or altered by artificial intelligence – alongside a full audit of all related evidence. The AFC explicitly requested the engagement of a globally recognized independent law enforcement or forensic authority with no ties to the GPF, the ruling administration, or opposition parties to examine all public and police-held footage, verify chain of custody for ballistic, digital, medical and physical evidence, and confirm no recordings have been edited or manipulated. The party stressed it is not prejudging any individual’s guilt or innocence, but that the severity of the public controversy requires an investigation whose credibility cannot be reasonably disputed, as eroding public trust in rule of law institutions threatens to undermine confidence in the entire administration of justice.
The incident has already resulted in opposition leader Azruddin Mohamed and two police constables being remanded to prison until November 24 on joint charges of illegal firearm and ammunition possession, plus unauthorized access to national security CCTV footage that Mohamed used to disprove the GPF’s initial claim that he and his associates fired the first shot near Narine’s home. A conviction on the charges carries a maximum penalty of a GYD$8 million fine and five years of imprisonment. High Court Justice Priscila Chandra-Hanif is scheduled to hear oral bail applications for Mohamed and Constable Ryan Greene – who is alleged to have accepted GYD$8 million for the CCTV footage – on October 23.
Dr. Campbell argued the newly emerged footage completely undermines the factual foundation of the charges against Mohamed and the two officers, and raises urgent questions about the reliability of evidence used to advance the prosecution. He is calling for Narine’s immediate investigation, potential prosecution if criminal wrongdoing is confirmed, and an urgent re-evaluation of the pending bail applications given the substantial new evidence. He went further to warn that the state’s continued reliance on contested allegations while ignoring exculpatory new footage raises serious concerns that politically motivated false charges are being used to target opposition figures.
WIN parliamentarian Toshana Famey-Corlette has directly called on Home Affairs Minister Oneidge Walrond to outline concrete steps for an independent probe that delivers a credible public account of the events, and demanded Police Commissioner Clifton Hicken immediately suspend all involved officers from operational duties pending the investigation, secure their service firearms, preserve all related CCTV recordings, and arrest any personnel for whom statutory grounds for detention exist under national law. She emphasized that no public official, regardless of rank, connections or political affiliation, should be exempt from equal application of the law.
The high-stakes controversy unfolds against a separate ongoing legal battle, where Mohamed and his father Nazar Mohamed are contesting a U.S. extradition request to face trial on alleged money laundering and financial crime charges, after being previously sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control for alleged tax evasion linked to their gold trading operations.
Pressure mounts to verify shooting video tied to police spy chief
