Relatives
fear
kidnap
victim
killed
AS
THE search continued yesterday for kidnap victim
Kamaldeo
`Golo' Ganesh, 27, of Bladen Hall, East Coast
Demerara, his relatives feared he is dead
.

WORRIED:
kidnap
victim Kamaldeo Ganesh's wife, Sonita Godette with
their two children Annie, 8 years, and Ajay,
The
young father was kidnapped Wednesday night and up to
late last night there was no sign of him, relatives
said.
Motorbike-bandits-dead
They
said there were rumours that Ganesh had been killed
and his body dumped somewhere in Buxton, also on the
East Coast, but there were no confirmed reports of his
death.
A
mournful crowd of relatives and friends yesterday
gathered at his home hoping that with assistance from
the Police and Army, who went on a search, they would
have found him.
However, they were unable to find any trace of Ganesh.
Police Commissioner Floyd McDonald told a news
conference yesterday that Police were looking for a
woman to assist with the investigations into the
kidnapping of Ganesh.
.
Pooran, who is an electrical air conditioning
contractor, and who holds the contract for the Office
of the President, State House and other government
buildings, said he did not know how the many victims
coped after brutal attacks by bandits.
Found
Dead
Body
of kidnap victim found near Buxton road

KILLED:
Kamaldeo `Golo' Ganesh
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THE
body of kidnap victim, Kamaldeo
'Golo' Ganesh, 27, of
Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara, who went missing
Wednesday night, was recovered yesterday, Police said.
It
was found around 07:00 hrs about two miles aback of
Buxton, East Coast Demerara, in the vicinity of the
Church of God road, Police said in a press release.
Ganesh's
black Night Hawk motorcycle, licence number CD 3939,
which he left home with on the night he was kidnapped,
was also found about 20 metres south of his body,
Police said.
Relatives
who went to identify the body, said it was partly
decomposed and had what appeared to be several
gunshot wounds in the back, and at the back of his
head.
Someone
on Wednesday night made contact with Ganesh's
relatives by telephone and demanded a ransom and they
were instructed to take it within 15 minutes to the
Buxton Side Line Dam and the railway embankment.
His
wife, Sonita Godette, said the person with whom she
spoke instructed her to hand over the money to someone
who would have been waiting there to collect it.
However,
the victim's relatives were unable to meet the demand,
(an undisclosed amount) because it was difficult to
acquire the money they were asking for in such a short
time, Godette explained.
The
caller also instructed that the matter should not be
reported to the Police.
Following
reports of the kidnapping, relatives began to conduct
a search for Ganesh with assistance from the Police
and the Army.
Police
and Army ranks carried out a search on Friday, in the
Buxton Backdam area but did not find any trace of
Ganesh.
A
mournful crowd of relatives and friends gathered on
Friday at the victim's home hoping that the Police and
Army, who went on a search, would have found him.
Police
Commissioner Floyd McDonald told a news conference
Friday that Police were looking for a woman to assist
with the investigations into the kidnapping of Ganesh.
Godette
said that her husband on Wednesday, around 18:00 hrs,
went on his usual evening ride down the railway
embankment road on his motorcycle.
She
said that about an hour later, an unidentified person
called her on her husband's cell phone, demanding a
ransom for his release.
She
said that in one instance the person put her husband
to speak on the phone and he related that he was about
to die.
"He
said, me half dead and dem gon kill me, dem gon carry
me way now and dem gon kill me, see wah all yuh could
do. He start cry and then somebody tek way the phone
and said `all yuh get de money?'"
The
wife said that during the telephone conversation she
remembered hearing noises in the background, which
sounded as if they were beating her husband.
Asked
whether her husband's kidnappers had disclosed their
location, she said they told her they were in the
Vryheids Lust backdam, also on the East Coast.
Kamaldeo's
mother, Chandra Ganesh, who operates a stall at the
Stabroek Market in Georgetown where she sells cloth,
said he assists her with the business and after work
in the afternoon he would usually go for a ride down
the railway embankment road up to Buxton and return.
She
recalled that shortly before her son left to go for
the ride Wednesday, a woman had called for him on the
telephone.
In
apparent response to that call he went off, but
returned shortly after, she recalled.
He
went out again shortly after, she said, but never
returned.
Sunday,
October 27, 2002