Othello Teah, a 39-year-old cash exchanger on the Barnesville Bend and Cease and a resident of Barnesville Kpelleh City, seemed glum as he stepped out of his room for an interview with this paper.
His facial features clearly indicated that he had endured a traumatic expertise up to now few days.
Earlier than the interview, Teah was virtually speechless. After a number of minutes, he agreed to share his ordeal with the Crime Watch Liberia Program aired on HOTT FM 107.9 following a latest armed theft.
Crime Watch Liberia, a nightly radio initiative devoted to group security and emergency response, intently coordinates its evening operations with the Liberia Nationwide Police and different group neighbourhood watch volunteers to cut back crime-related points.
Teah recounted that on Thursday, June 19, 2025, between 6:35 am and 6:40 am, whereas serving prospects on the Bend and Cease, he observed two males approaching him—one wielding a brief black and brown single-barrel gun and the opposite carrying a machete.
“I normally go away my home at 6 a.m. to go change cash on the Barnesville Bend and Cease,” he defined. “The person with the gun fired a shot into the air and ordered his companion with the machete to kill me if I attempted to maneuver.”
Teah shared that the armed man with the gun took US$2,600 in money together with L$150,000, his enterprise telephone (which had each Lone Star and Orange cell cash SIM playing cards), his passport, and his Nationwide Identification card.
Throughout the escape try, a battle ensued, and the gun fell to the bottom. With tears rolling down his cheeks, Teahexpressed his shock that bystanders have been current through the assault however did nothing to assist.
“I’m traumatized and have misplaced the whole lot,” he added. Teahstressed that the enterprise was his supply of earnings to maintain his household.
He additionally talked about the problem he faces in retrieving his cell cash SIM playing cards because of the lack of his Nationwide Identification card. “I reported the incident, together with the gun, to the Liberia Nationwide Police within the Barnesville Property,” Teah acknowledged.
His case is only one of many incidents occurring in and round Monrovia, the place weak people are attacked in broad daylight with out help from bystanders.
Crime Watch Liberia has filed a Freedom of Data request with the Liberia Nationwide Police to acquire a replica of the crime statistics report in Montserrado.
