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Businessman and Former President of the Penal / Debe Chamber of Commerce was robbed and assaulted during a home invasion on Thursday.
In recalling the incident he expresses a feeling of hopelessness over where crime has reached in the country.
Alicia Boucher has his story.

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00:00Sixty-nine-year-old Rampasad Suraj was at his Pinal Rock Road home on Thursday when
00:05around 2.30 a.m., bandits kicked down the door to his bedroom, and three men entered
00:10and attacked him.
00:11By the time they kicked the door down, they literally was on my bed.
00:17I was asleep, so they were able to overpower me on the bed itself.
00:25I happened to have got my hands on my license firearm, but I didn't get the opportunity
00:32to shoot at anyone.
00:35So they rang my hand and literally made a circle of my hand and took the firearm.
00:46Chopped me on my head as well.
00:47They chopped me on my head first while fighting for the firearm.
00:52After subduing the businessman who owns an accounting and auditing firm, the bandits
00:56then proceeded to ransack the bedroom and stole valuables such as jewelry and cash during
01:02the ordeal which Suraj says lasted around 30 minutes.
01:06They also poisoned his two dogs.
01:08Suraj, who was at home alone at the time, says about 10 minutes after the assailants
01:13left, he sought the assistance of the community and then called the police.
01:19The police responded quickly.
01:20They came in about 10 minutes time, but obviously by then everybody would have gone and there
01:26wasn't anything they could have done.
01:27They came the following day and did their fingerprinting and so.
01:30The former Pinal Debe Chamber President tells us he has been the victim of two robberies
01:35in the past, but it's the first time criminals entered his home.
01:39He says he has long been advocating for additional police resources in the area and voicing concern
01:44about what he claims was one serviceable vehicle at the Pinal Police Station.
01:51But about two, three months ago, I was reliably informed that there has been one.
01:56As a matter of fact, I have been raising this issue.
01:58I even raised this issue with Gary Griffith as well when he was the commissioner of police.
02:03They have one vehicle.
02:04They have one serviceable vehicle.
02:06He's uncertain whether the situation has changed as of recently, but Suraj says it is unacceptable,
02:12pointing to the Ministry of National Security, which he notes receives high budgetary allocations.
02:18I cannot understand how that ministry could afford these things to happen and how could
02:22afford a government, after 19 years in power, could have its citizens in this state of problems.
02:31He believes the country will continue to suffer loss in terms of brain drain as people flee
02:35in fear.
02:36This place is rotten to its core.
02:41I have been repeatedly saying as well that this is a failed state.
02:45But at the end of the day, somehow or the other, I tell myself it's the population that
02:48likes it so, because we continue to vote the same two parties in and out of power every
02:52five years, and we end up with the same situation as we have every five years.
02:56Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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