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Businessman plans to migrate after fifth robbery

Jul 29, 2014 News

…says he is ‘devastated, scared and fed-up’

After being robbed five times this year, a couple who operates the MS Hack and Sons Supermarket at Parika, East Bank Essequibo has decided to migrate.
Shaheed Hack of Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara, lost more than $2M on Sunday when armed bandits escaped with a bag of money dropped by his fearful wife outside their home.
According to Hack, he sent his wife to their supermarket in Parika on Sunday to collect money from persons who were in debt to them.
He said that due to his fasting for the month of Ramadan, he could not accompany her, as he normally did.
Hack said that he collects money on Sundays from debtors and pays his employees on Mondays.
He explained that his wife returned home around 20:30 hrs, and parked their bus in front of the yard. He said that she had with her $2.7 M that was collected from persons who owed them.
According to Hack, who was inside the house, when he opened the front door for his wife, he noticed a silver car approaching her at the gate.
Hack said that his wife was holding the bag of money in her hand while she was making her way into the yard.
He said that before she entered the yard, a man exited the silver car and pointed a gun at him while he was at the front door, and told him not to move.
When his wife saw this, “She dropped the bag of money in front of the yard, and ran inside the house.”
Without noticing that his wife dropped the money, Hack said that he locked the door in order to secure himself and wife.
During this time, the gunmen made off with the cash.
Hack said, “I am devastated, scared and fed-up. I invest so much money and people coming and take it away. They only looking at what I have and not how much I owe.”
Hack noted that after he related the issue to his son overseas, he has decided to sell his belongings in Guyana, including his supermarket,  to migrate for ‘peaceful living’.
Hack said that he is “fed-up, because the police only come, take a statement, and never turn up again.”

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