FORMER Magistrate and broadcaster Fazil Azeez, who was shot and injured in April 25, 2015 at Eccles, East Bank Demerara in what he judged to be an execution attempt, has not regained the full use of his legs and is wheelchair-bound.He told the Guyana Chronicle on Wednesday that he is hoping the police can review the case.

No one was arrested for the crime, although he gave a detailed description of the shooter and months after the incident a neighbor, who lives next to his place in Eccles observed a man lurking in the yard and approached him.

When he could not give a reason for being there he was taken to Providence Police Station, where he was released, even though he could not say which security service he was attached to. Instead, the neighbour was placed on the bench.

The man told the police he was working as a security guard and that is why he was at Azeez’s property in Eccles.

After an interview with the police at his home in the city after he was discharged from hospital, Azeez said the Police have not made contact with him since 2015.

He explained that even after he told detectives that the shooting was a clear “hit” because the gunman made no attempt to take the bag with money, they keep saying it was a robbery.

Recalling that day, Azeez told the Guyana Chronicle that it was just before midday, while he was at Eccles with some money to pay the construction workers when a man came up to him saying, “Boss man I need a job.”

He told the man that he did not employ workers and turned away from him to refer him to the foreman when the man pulled out a gun and shot him in the abdomen and fled.

Azeez said he was picked up by a neighbour and taken to the Woodlands Hospital where he spent three days in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and expended $3M.

Azeez, a single parent of two sons, said he is unable to earn since the shooting incident and is living off his savings, which is almost now empty, to pay a housekeeper and provide for his children.

He had three surgical operations following the shooting.

Azeez said he is recuperating slowly and has gained the use of his right leg, while he is undergoing physiotherapy for the left leg, which remains inactive. He said the bullet hit his spinal cord, as such he lost the use of his limbs.

Azeez served for seven years as a Magistrate before going back to private practice at the end of December, 2011.

Azeez worked for several years at the then Guyana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), eventually serving as the radio station’s General Manager.