“Justice must be served this time. We want answers,” Vaughn Assanah the son of murdered taxi driver Vibert Assanah told Stabroek News yesterday.
Vibert Assanah
Vibert Assanah, 57, of 40 Ptolemy Street, Melanie Damishana was stabbed to death shortly before 11 pm on Sunday by two men who hired him outside the Georgetown Hospital where he had been operating as a taxi driver for years.
“He wasn’t rich, but he made sure each of us got a good education, would spend his last cent on that,” the man’s son continued.
Saying that he was still shocked at what has happened, the younger Assanah said he personally wanted answers and “I don’t think they [his father’s killers] would want a meeting with me at any point.”
Meanwhile, the man’s daughter Suzanne was having a hard time controlling her tears. She had been crying uncontrollably since learning of her father’s death. His grief-stricken widow declined to speak yesterday at her home where relatives and friends gathered to comfort each other.
The family is shocked that this could have happened to a man who had been working his car for hire for over 15 years, after he left the Guyana Police Force, in which he had been a serving member for a number of years.
Speaking for the family, Vaughn Assanah said they were always apprehensive about the hours his father chose to work, but always trusted God that no harm would come to him. The man preferred to work at night, since the roads were clearer, the place was cooler, and he was moving up in age, his son related. He would leave for work around 6.30 pm and return home between 1 am to 4 am. His hours would fluctuate depending on how the work went, Vaughn stated.
The dead man’s son said he believed the attackers were after his father’s car, which he had only bought recently. He said his father was the kind of person who would retaliate and not give up easily. The man said his father was not one to keep large sums of money on his person or in the car.
The two men, who had hired the driver outside the hospital from where he operated, stopped the car on Bent Street between Hardina and Haley streets where a wound that caused the man’s death was inflicted with a knife.
One of the alleged assailants who was held by police shortly after the incident remains in police custody while the other is still at large. Stabroek News understands that the man, after being questioned intensely, called the name of the other attacker and a search was on to locate him.
A post mortem examination is to be performed tomorrow.
A police press release issued yesterday afternoon said the police are continuing investigations into he matter. The release said that the man in custody was arrested at the GPHC were the police went after receiving information that he was there.
the only justice is the death penalty, or life imprisonment with hard labor until death.
these criminals are below the animals species.
I agree with freespeech here. The death penalty for these bastards. PLEASE PUBLISH THEIR NAMES, the names of the VICTIMS in the Meadowbrook reoobery were mentioned, addresses given, what they were doing, etc. WHY are the criminals being protected. The Publice needs to know, they could be people’s neighbours, etc. People should bewary. Come on SN!!!
I’m glad that one of them is caught, and the other accomplise name is revealed and a hunt is on for him, justice will be served one way or another.
To the bereaved family of Vibert Assanah my sincere sympathy is extended. Collectively we have made decisions in omission or commission which have lead to the demise of your loved ones and many other in Guyana.
I am still hopeful of a bright future, that hope is shaped by an ideology not instructed nor enriched by man. It is a future that calls us all to a higher purpose in life, thereby we will better understand our purpose for the period of our sojourn on earth.
I am hoping that this tragedy finds you enroute to that place, for its only in that place that comfort and shalom can be provided beyond mere words.
May the peace of God be with the whole family.
my deepest sympaty to the bereaved family, this is a shock to me because i had the oppertunity in working with mr assanah for a short period of time and was a friendly person with a warm personality, rest in peace bro.
You want answers? from who…the police force?? you gotta be kidding, they might ask you a lot of questions because they never have a clue!! This is another unsolved mystery as far as the POLWEST are concerned.
R.I.P Mr. Assanah
My sympathies go out to the Assanah family,this has to be very hard for you to bear,but you must be strong!!One day things will get better in our beautiful land!!!
Oh goodness not again ! You try to make an honest living and some human garbage is just waiting to take it away .
Glad they got one of them , man they should beat him good ! Hope they get the other scum quick !
It bothers me that these animals don’t only beat you up , they also kill ! If they want money then take it and go , don’t kill , but of course , we’re talking about animals here , not humans.
My condolences to the Assanah family.
Sooner than later answers would be given to you and your family, that criminal whose in custody, when waterboarded, will bawl/grimace/halla the name of the other murderer.
all i have to say is thank lord one of them get caught so he have to talk out & when down throw in the pen for life good future for him ha.