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Estranged wife desperately trying to locate missing husband
Almost six months have passed since the relatives of 74-year-old Herman Fatima a.k.a “Christian” last saw him but they are still hoping that he will soon be found.
Celestine Williams, the man’s estranged wife, on Tuesday told Kaieteur News that she and her husband had separated five years ago but he would regularly visit the Pentecostal Church at which she preaches.
Herman Fatima
She stated that Herman would attend church every Sunday morning and visit whenever they were feeding persons and partake in similar activities.
It was during mid-December 2012 when she last saw the man at her residence.
“He wasn’t living here but I last saw him here at the Church during the second week of December last year. How I know he was missing is that his relative would send money from Canada every month to a mutual family friend and he would go there and collect it every month. But the people called me in April to find out why he wasn’t coming,” she said.
Williams explained that Herman began living with another family in Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, shortly after their separation and she instantly contacted them to enquire about his whereabouts.
“The family there said the last time they saw him was November on Elections Day when he left with his documents in a bag, his ID card, NIS stuff and such so they assumed that he went to vote. They say for him to be gone so long is strange, especially without a bag.”
Kaieteur News understands that they told Williams that they saw a photograph of a body that was found at Covent Garden, East Bank Demerara during February, last, in a Kaieteur News edition and thought the person “looked” like Herman.
With this new information, the woman visited the National Library to have a copy of the article and was then referred to the Lyken Funeral Parlour to enquire about the body.
However; she was told by staff at the funeral home that the body had been identified a while ago and that it was not her husband.
“When they told me the body had been identified by the man’s family I didn’t know what else to do since we were looking for him all over and his relatives told us that they had made a report to the police station already.
“Our two sons tried to find him but were unsuccessful too,” the distraught wife said.
The man’s younger son who is also a preacher and resides in French Guiana returned to Guyana two weeks ago to assist in locating his father.
He was only allowed a short time in the country and visited the Ministries of Labour and Health to enquire if his father had visited either of the two recently.
“Both Ministries knew him and my second son visited the pension department at Labour and he was referred to the Health Ministry but they hadn’t seen him for awhile now. So now we don’t know what to do and my second son has returned to French Guiana. He was aged but healthy so I can’t say what really happened,” Williams added.
When asked for a recent photograph of the missing man, the woman explained that she did not have any in her possession, and that the only photograph in her album was of their wedding day.
“He had his passport size photos and his documents as well as his ID card with him. I wish I had a recent one to give to you.”
She is pleading with the public that if anyone knows the whereabouts of the man to kindly contact her church located at Lot 97 Laing Avenue, West Ruimveldt or the nearest police station.
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