YESTERDAY made one week since Saeed Hamid, called ‘Saho’ or ‘Butcher’, boarded an unknown vehicle headed to Rosignol to conduct business, but has not been seen nor heard from since.

The 56-year-old Skeldon Market food vendor left his Queenstown, Corriverton home around 09:00h on Thursday last, but when he did not show up that night, the family started to worry about his whereabouts.

According to Afraz Hamid, the older of the missing man’s two children, he received a call sometime after 21:00h last Thursday from his brother, with whom his father has been living for the past two years, saying he was worried as the old man had not returned home.

“Aslam called me and was very worried; he said dad had told him on Wednesday evening he was planning to go Rosignol on Thursday to purchase some items for his food business, but did not yet return home,
which is quite unlike him, since he always return before it gets dark,” Afraz said.

He said they tried numerous times to make contact with him via his cell-phone but were unsuccessful. They even asked people at the market if they had seen him since, or know who he may have gone to do business with in Rosignol, West Coast Berbice but no-one did, or seemed to know.

The brothers subsequently filed a missing person’s report with the Springlands Police Station on Saturday, and have since placed advertisements on television and in the newspapers, hoping that someone may have some information about his whereabouts.

Meanwhile, residents of Crabwood Creek and surrounding communities have
expressed shock that Hamid, a former butcher before getting into the food business, has gone missing.  He was described by many as a very religious person, and a person who was very friendly and helpful.

His children are perturbed, since, as far as they know, their father does not have any issues with anyone, nor has he any reason to run away from home. They are hoping, however, that wherever their father is, he is safe and will return home soon.

They are asking that persons with any information surrounding his whereabouts make contact with the family on: 611-6598 or the nearest police station.