Guyana po­lice say a “go-fast” ves­sel with the Op­po­si­tion Leader Azrud­din Mo­hamed among sev­er­al peo­ple on board, had been in­ter­cept­ed on Tues­day night af­ter it al­leged­ly failed to stop when asked to do so by law en­force­ment per­son­nel.

The Guyana Po­lice Force (GPF) in a state­ment said that about 9:4 pm (lo­cal time), a rou­tine joint mar­itime pa­trol in­volv­ing the Coast Guard and Po­lice ob­served a ‘go-fast’ ves­sel en­ter­ing the mouth of the De­mer­ara Riv­er at a high rate of speed.

Po­lice said the ves­sel was sig­nalled by siren to stop but failed to com­ply, prompt­ing a pur­suit. It was sub­se­quent­ly in­ter­cept­ed at a wharf at Friend­ship, East Bank De­mer­ara.