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Burglars cart off over $1M from city church
By Javone Vickerie
With no fear for any possible repercussion from the Creator, burglars chose the wee hours of last Sunday morning to break and enter a city church and cart off over $1M in cash and electronic equipment.
When Kaieteur News arrived at the church on Sunday, a service was in session, while several persons were seen inspecting the premises to determine the extent of the break-in, in terms of losses. Police also arrived on the scene and begun their investigations.
Members of the congregation were unaware at the time that the building
The ransacked Finance department
had been broken into.
According to Senior Pastor at the Light House Chapel International Church, Collins Asabere, the premises was secured around 11:00 pm on Saturday by the caretaker, who is a student, and is employed on a part-time basis.
The Pastor, a Ghanaian national, said that about 6:00 am on Sunday he was made aware by a member of the church that the chapel had been broken into. He said that the caretaker told him that he did not hear a sound when the burglars struck.
“He was the one who actually discovered the church had been broken into,” Asabere said.
Located at lot ‘BB’ and ‘CC’ Freeman Street, East La Penitence, the church has been in existence for over eight years, and has never been broken into.
The Pastor further stated that when he arrived at the Church, a grilled wooden door which serves as the entrance to the media room was open. No equipment from the media room was removed.
From all indications, the door had been prised open with a crowbar and served as the entry and exit point of the burglars, as all other doors were closed and secured. The intruders ransacked the offices of the Pastor as well as Finance and Administration sections.
There were footprints in a number of rooms and documents were seen scattered on the floor.
Asabere told Kaieteur News that about two weeks ago, a woman who claimed to be a member of a branch of the church located in Ghana, arrived at the chapel and requested to tour the church.
The grilled door which the burglars used as their entry and exit point.
The pastor said that he was told by the caretaker that the woman had arrived with two men in a taxi.
“No one had made a request to visit the church, so I found it strange and told him not to allow them in,” the Pastor said.
Investigations are ongoing.
The thieves took five (5) laptops, at a value of US$600 each, and over $800,000 in local cash along with some foreign currency. They also stole a few bottles of non-alcoholic wine.
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