-house searched, laptops seized
Police searched the Herstelling home of We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) Member of Parliament Natasha Singh last evening, seizing laptops, flash drives and audio recorders as part of a terrorism investigation.
Singh was taken into custody by the police, questioned at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters and then released.
In a statement last night, the police said that as part of its ongoing investigation into the firebombing of the Guyana Power and Light substation at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara, it executed a search warrant at the residence of Singh between 17:00hrs and 17:45hrs. The police force said that it will provide further updates as necessary as investigations progress.
Officers from the CID arrived as Singh was finishing her evening prayers. They presented a warrant authorising them to search her home, yard and vehicles for computer systems and possible recording devices. The officers gave no further details about the investigation during the search.
Singh appeared visibly shocked as she let the officers in. She accompanied them through each section of the house they searched, sitting down at points to watch as they went through her living room, bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen and work areas. Officers also searched the area where her granddaughter sleeps.
Throughout the livestreams, Singh repeatedly said she did not know what the officers were looking for and maintained that she had nothing connected to the allegations. She said she was allowing officers to search under her supervision and was following them from room to room to make sure nothing was planted in her home.
“This is too much, this is the Muslim President accusing a female Muslim MP of being involved in terrorism,” Singh said as officers searched her home.
APNU MP Ganesh Mahipaul arrived while the search was underway to help Singh monitor it. Fellow WIN MP Toshana Famey Collette, the party’s shadow minister of home affairs, was also at the home. The search was livestreamed on several social media pages.
The search came one day after President Irfaan Ali said his government had received intelligence about an alleged online plot to carry out attacks in Guyana.
In a press statement, WIN General Secretary and MP Odessa Primus accused the government of using state institutions to intimidate and sideline elected opposition representatives. She said the alleged targeting and detention of opposition parliamentarians threatened their ability to carry out their duties in the National Assembly.
Primus said more than 109,000 Guyanese voted for WIN in the September 2025 elections, giving the party 16 seats in the National Assembly. She called for an end to what WIN described as the political persecution of opposition MPs and urged the government to respect parliamentary immunity and the constitutional rights of the Office of the Leader of the Opposition.
Primus also called on civil society groups, human rights advocates, diplomatic missions and CARICOM to speak out. She cited CARICOM’s Charter of Civil Society and its commitments to fundamental freedoms, political pluralism and the rule of law.
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