As investigations intensify into the robbery committed on former Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, the Police are hunting two Georgetown residents.
The men were positively identified by their fingerprints that were taken from the home of the former Minister and General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) following the robbery.
The home of former Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee which gunmen invaded
Deputy Commander of A Division (Georgetown-East Bank Demerara), Calvin Brutus when contacted told Guyana Times that after the fingerprints of the two men were found in the Police database, detectives went to the houses where the men last stayed but came up empty handed.
Nevertheless, Brutus noted that the Police are continuing their manhunt with the aim of apprehending and prosecuting the two men. This publication understands the men were previously before the courts for similar offences.
The Police are continuing their investigation since their accomplices are yet to be identified. Three gunmen on Wednesday morning last executed the daring robbery on the Eccles, East Bank Demerara house, owned by the PPP General Secretary.
The robbery reportedly occurred just about 12:00h after the gunmen gained entry via an open door on the lower flat of the house and tied up the two housekeepers.
Reports are that the men ransacked the house and carted off an undisclosed sum of cash and a quantity of jewellery. After the ordeal, the bandits escaped in a waiting car. The women subsequently managed to untie themselves and raised an alarm.
Speaking with the media, Rohee confirmed that he was not at home at the time of the robbery while noting that his two domestic staff were in the home and would have left the back door ajar through which the men gained entry. The men were carrying guns and a knife.
After confronting the two women, the bandits held them at gunpoint and ordered them into the upper flat of the building, where they were gagged and bound with duct tape.
The men, Rohee stated, ransacked the home and found a quantity of jewellery belonging to himself and his wife and an undisclosed sum of money. Hours after the robbery, the car that was used was found abandoned. The Police is also searching for the owner of the car since it was rented to the bandits.
