A Brooklyn-based Guyanese social media activist who made day by day life a residing hell for high authorities and personal sector officers by exposing horror tales of corruption now faces deportation after she was final week plucked from her house by ICE brokers and spirited to a holding middle in Louisiana the place she awaits her destiny.
Melissa Atwell-Holder, who traded on social media as “Melly Mell” served up dozens of tales and exposes about authorities corruption in Guyana for months, mainly incomes the title as an enemy of the state. She laid naked a mixture of corruption tales intertwined with hyperlinks between ministers and different excessive officers with their relations and “facet chics” alleging that hundreds of thousands in contracts had been being funneled by means of these cronies as fronts for the ruling elite.
She dared the federal government in day by day exchanges to extradite her to Guyana to face cyber bullying and different expenses. She even accused Lawyer Common Anil Nandlall of being one in every of her insider confidential contacts, alleging that he had used her to secretly dump tons of political dust on colleagues and others with whom he’s feuding, expenses he has vehemently denied. She had claimed that he was a really helpful contact earlier than an obvious disagreement.
Now, she is engaged in a combat to each stay within the US the place she married a US citizen a number of years in the past and to guard herself if she is actually deported again house within the coming weeks.
A grasp listening to for her is scheduled in Louisiana on March 28th the place further particulars of why she was snatched from her house are anticipated to be launched. Her attorneys say in addition they plan to make an software for bail.
Atwell had develop into such a family identify in Guyana that 1000’s of Guyanese, together with authorities and opposition officers, had logged on to her Fb web page day by day and had tuned into her dwell FB chats detailing a plethora of alleged corruption acts and tales of excessive officers successful and eating ‘stored ladies.’
Opposition events have accused authorities of plotting her arrest by loading up American officers with alleged acts of criminality, together with extortion and cyber bullying. AG Nandlall says no such factor occurred. He even mocked an opposition rally in Georgetown this week in help of her saying the US authorities acted alone in arresting and detaining her.
“Lo and behold, a bunch of individuals in Guyana is protesting in Guyana, presumably based mostly upon the utterances I’m listening to, protesting the federal government of Guyana and calling for the discharge of this particular person. And for the avoidance of doubt, the federal government of Guyana didn’t arrest Melissa Atwell. The federal government of Guyana is just not detaining Melissa Atwell, from all the knowledge that’s out there, it’s the US authorities that has arrested and is detaining Melissa Atwell,” Nandlall mentioned on a social media posting.
