THE Mc Doom-based Farm Supply and General Equipment Ltd. is in the process of reviewing its security arrangements, especially relative to ferrying cash to banks in the city, after two gunmen on Tuesday robbed two company clerks of just under $7.6 million dollars as they were on their way to make a bank deposit. The incident occurred just a stone’s throw from the company’s office at Mc Doom, EBD.
Reports reaching this publication stated that a car with two company employees was making its way out onto the main East Bank Highway from a street when it path was blocked by a horse drawn cart. It was at that time that the two gunmen came from nowhere brandishing hand guns as they demanded that the two employees hand over the bag containing the cash.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source at the company said the company is not pointing any fingers at any of its workers, since it is not believed that the robbery was an inside job.
Even as the police were up to late yesterday afternoon questioning the two employees about the robbery, the Farm Supply and General Equipment Ltd will not be conducting any internal investigations.
Guyana Chronicle was told that the two clerks are the same persons who routinely take the company’s deposits to the bank, and often larger amounts are involved.
The source added that this incident is the company’s first experience of a robbery.
Up to late yesterday, the police had confined their questioning of employees to the two clerks who had experienced the robbery. Asked in the company’s movement of cash allows outsiders to know what is happening, the source responded in the negative, saying that the process is very simple and normal: employees just join a company vehicle and proceed to the bank without the aid of any security detail.
According to the source, the company would now employ a private security firm to handle transporting the cash to the bank. Further, security at the facility would be reviewed.
The source told the Guyana Chronicle that the company has in its employ ex-police officers, and as such, is confident that its security remains in good hands.
The source told the Guyana Chronicle that the loss remains a tremendous setback for the company, as suppliers of materials and machinery are owed and must be paid.