says:
Ordinary folks, will continue to face unbridled criminality, as a result, of the PPP’s communist elite unwillingness and failure to reform and professionalism the Police Force, with parliamentary oversight.
Unfortunately, the ruling elite scuttled the British funded Security Sector Reform Program, clearly, at the expense and continued suffering and trauma of ordinary citizens.
Citizens, needs to demand change!
Mon Repos businessman gunned down
Popular fish exporter Rajendra Sonilall, called ‘Moti’, was gunned down shortly after 19:30 hrs last night outside his Second Street, Mon Repos business place, in what police described as an execution-style killing.
The 43-year-old businessman of Lot 73 Second Street Mon Repos , East Coast Demerara, was shot at close range in the back of the head and in the chest by a lone gunman who arrived and fled on foot.
Unsolved
murder
Sonilall succumbed minutes after arriving at the Georgetown
Public Hospital Corporation.
Relatives said that nothing was stolen from the victim and the
motive for the brazen killing remains unclear.
Sonilall, who fathered five children, had been operating his
business for some 25 years.
A resident told Kaieteur News that she was outside her house
when she saw a man, who was wearing a toque, turn east into
Second Street, Mon Repos, where Sonilall’s fish processing
business is located.
She said that the man then walked past Sonilall, who was sitting
at a table near his business place.
But the woman said that the man then turned back and headed
towards Sonilall.
She then heard three explosions, and saw the stranger run east
along Second Street and disappear north towards the ‘sea
dam.’
The eyewitness said that she assumed at first that someone had
let off firecrackers, until she saw someone say: “Come…boss
man deh pun de ground.”
But another man, who also claimed to have been an eyewitness,
said Sonilall was sitting under a stall when a man in hooded
shirt drove up and shot him in the head.
“The man really want fuh kill he, because de man shoot he
plenty in he head.”
The female eyewitness said that she ran to the spot where
Sonilall had been sitting and saw him lying motionless on the
ground.
Residents then rushed him to the GPHC where he succumbed shortly
after being taken to the Accident and Emergency Unit.
Asked about a possible motive, the slain man’s distraught
wife, Rasheeda, was adamant that her husband had no problems
with anyone.
However, she disclosed that he had been “worried” because
several persons owed him a lot of money.
Another friend also said that Sonilall was owed millions of
dollars. He speculated that someone might have wanted the easier
way out, which was to kill him. One of the slain man’s
daughters told Kaieteur News that her father left home at around
06:00 hrs yesterday. He returned home at around 17:15 hrs to
bathe and eat before heading back to his business place, which
is located a few buildings from his home. She said that a female
resident came to their home to inform them that her father has
been shot.
As news of the tragedy spread, several relatives, friends and
employees rushed to the GPHC and to the scene of the killing.
None of them had a bad word to say about Sonilall, who they
described as a true friend and generous businessman.
According to a relative, Sonilall has been exporting salted fish
to Trinidad on a large scale for decades.
He said many fishermen depend on him to buy their fish since he
is well known.
“They murder he now what we gon do with we fish? Who we gon go
to?” one fisherman lamented.
Relatives confirmed that Sonilall’s business place was the
scene of another tragedy last year, after an employee committed
suicide on the premises.
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