ABDUL Saif Kadir told the Guyana Chronicle that at approximately 03:00 hours on Sunday, June 7, his family was robbed of cash and valuables in the passageway to their Waterloo Street, South Cummingsburg, Georgetown home.

He said that he and two neighbours had returned from a routine check on stores owned by the Kadir family in the city, and as they got on the passage way to his home, three armed and masked men held them up and searched them. The men found his house keys on him and got him to open the door to his house, but not before duct-taping his neighbours and making them lie in the passageway to his house.

When they got inside his house, they held him at gunpoint as they demanded cash and valuables, but he told them he did not have any. Surprisingly, the young man said, he was not assaulted while the men in their search found nothing, until they reached his mother’s room. His mother was sleeping at the time.

The robbers, Kadir said, forced him to knock on the door, and when his mother opened, they also held her at gunpoint as they demanded cash and valuables. Kadir said his traumatised mother, Bibi Nafeesah Kadir, did not know what to tell the men, and they proceeded to ransack the room.
During the ransacking, the thieves found a bag containing G$1.5 million. The bag also had the passports belonging to his mother, him and another relative, Adul Zulfiekar Kadir (deceased) as well as the US visas of the latter two. The bandits took that bag and its contents.

The family has since made a report at the Brickdam Police Station, and an investigation has been launched into the robbery. The family is also offering a reward to anyone with information that will lead to the capture of the robbers.

By Tajeram Mohabir