The owner of Gabar’s Halal Chicken Outlet, located at Clifton Village, Coren-tyne, Berbice, was robbed on Sunday morning by two bandits, one of whom shot at him after being recognised during the attack.
The police have since arrested two suspects, including one man who was identified by the businessman.
Stabroek News was told yesterday that the men were being questioned.
Doodnauth Takapersaud, also known as ‘Gabar,’ 54, who resides at the rear of the same property where his business is located, at Lot 13 Clifton Public Road, yesterday told Stabroek News that it was the fifth time he had been robbed in a matter of months.
Takapersaud said he was fearful for his life and hoped the police would file charges against the suspects, since they have failed to do so in the past.
He explained that on Saturday night, he and his two employees, who live with him, went to bed around 10 pm. However, he said, that around 1.35 am, one of the workers heard someone walking on a shed and alerted him. “I notice they start fa pull the window, so I tell them [the workers] come out to the hall and me start broadside [with] me cutlass,” he noted.
According to Takapersaud, the two perpetrators then managed to gain entry into the bedroom. “Me try fa go in back the room when me get me cutlass and them [bandits] brace the door and me tell them gal [the workers] ayo gimme me gun, gimme me gun, hand me me gun, and them [bandits] a brace the [room] door, let me na get to go in,” Takapersaud noted.
He said after the perpetrators locked themselves in the bedroom, he and his two employees used the main door to exit the house and after exiting they then locked the main door from outside.
The two bandits after grabbing a sum of cash, jewellery and cellphones, jumped onto the shed in order to make an escape. “Them a jump out back the room and me run down the step with me cutlass to charge pon them and when them jump down me notice one a them, me recognise he, and he tell the other shoot me mudda so and so,” the businessman recounted. “By time me run up back the step, me hear the gunshot,” he added.
The bandits carted off $235,000 in cash from Takapersaud and $80,000 in cash, one gold ring, five gold bangles and two Samsung Galaxy cellphones from his employees. Additionally, a quantity of plucked chicken and a case of energy drinks were later discovered in a salt bag a short distance away from Takapersaud’s house.
Similar items were stolen during two previous break-ins last November and in January.
Takapersaud believes that he is being targeted as a result of an ongoing court case over some 350 acres of land. He further alleged that in the past, the men have assaulted his employees while searching for him and have also stoned his house numerous times. Takapersaud claimed that the same bandit who ordered his accomplice to shoot him was the person who stoned his house.
In early January, Takapersaud had stated, “Since last year we before the court for the land and them been come here looking for me and them broadside them girls wah a work with me. I went and report and them lock them up and loose them next day. Then them pelt me house down, me report them and lock them up and them loose them next day again.”
Takapersaud had stated that he had visited Georgetown and filed a report at the Police Complaints Authority after the police would have released the men on several occasions without filing charges.
Takapersaud yesterday stressed that he remains fearful for his life.
