THE BANDITS WILL BE CAUGHT

Mar 26, 2011 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

“They had no right to kill that innocent man,” the woman bemoaned as she read the report in the newspaper about the cold-blooded killing of a driver attached to a mining office located within the Ogle Aerodrome.
“What right they had to take that man’s life? What did he do to them?” she continued.
I could not help her with answers to those questions since not only did the criminals have no right at all to kill that driver at the Olge aerodrome, but they had no right being in the compound in the first place since they had no lawful business there.
Their business was to rob the place but in so doing they snuffed out the life of a man who was sleeping in a vehicle. This man would have had a wife and no doubt would have had his own obligations to his home.
As if reading my mind, the woman went on, “Who is going to take care of the man’s wife? Who is going to help her pay the bills?” The ease with which bandits snuff out the lives of the innocent in Guyana leaves you to ask what sort of circumstances led to this sort of carelessness.
One disgusting explanation is that these men are products of economic hard times. Well, there are many other individuals who are in a far worse state than any deprived bandit can be and they never took to crime. If you listen to some of the stories of some of the more successful individuals in Guyana who have worked their way from rags to riches, many of these individuals came from deprived backgrounds, suffered great hardships but made an effort to overcome their circumstance without attempting to harm anyone.
Poverty is no justification for crime. The vast majority of law-abiding citizens of this country emerged from humble circumstances and never picked up a gun to shoot anyone so as to be able to feed themselves.
Those bandits who invaded that mining office at the Ogle aerodrome were not hungry and in need of food. They were after wealth, huge wealth. They were not interested in earning an honest dollar, otherwise they would have sought jobs similar to that done by the man whose life they snuffed out while he was asleep.
The reason why they took to a life of crime is not because of hardships. They are most likely the products of the good time which Guyana now enjoys. Their victim would have grown up in the hard times, yet he went to get a job to take care of his family.
The reason they took to crime is because they can get away with it. They feel that because of the lax security in Guyana they stood a good chance of making a hit at the mining office and not being caught. They are wrong. They hit the wrong place. They touched the bourgeoisie class in Guyana and nothing moves the authorities into action as when the upper class suffers a loss in Guyana.
The police are seeking those bandits. It has been said that the images obtained from these security cameras were not good enough. So the bandits will feel that they do not have to worry since their identity will not be immediately known.
They will also feel that since no fingerprint matches were made, then they are off scot free. They are going to be arrested and caught. The police will pursue whatever leads they have and they will build a case against these guys. A great deal of pressure is going to be kept on the police by the powerful in society to ensure that this crime is solved.
Already there is evidence that the police are serious. Road blocks are being thrown up throughout the country and this no doubt has to do with information that the police have at their disposal.
Those who killed that innocent man will have their day in Court. They will face the law and they will have to explain what provoked them to shoot a man who was taking a nod in a vehicle.
No one of course is interested in what they have to say. And when those who were involved are caught, brought before the courts and sentenced they know that there is a good chance that they will not be subject to capital punishment.
A law was passed recently outlawing capital punishment for a number of offences.
So the taxpayers of Guyana will most likely end up having to pay for the upkeep of the convicts for the remainder of their lives in prison. At least, though, they will be locked away from society and would no longer pose a threat.
All of this is certain because as night follows days, the police are going to solve that crime and bring that gang who stole money and weapons to justice.

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