Six months af­ter plead­ing to the pub­lic for help to re­pair his home, a young vi­su­al­ly im­paired man has been robbed.

Bran­don Ramkissoon, 24, lost his phone and oth­er be­long­ings to men claim­ing to be po­lice. The in­ci­dent oc­curred mo­ments af­ter elec­tric­i­ty was re­stored dur­ing Tues­day’s out­age that af­fect­ed some parts of Trinidad.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Ramkissoon ex­plained how the sit­u­a­tion un­fold­ed.

“I was by un­cle on Tues­day and then I leave and went by an­oth­er cousin for five min­utes and then the cur­rent went. They say stay un­til the cur­rent come back be­cause sup­pose you walk­ing in the dark and you get robbed,” he re­called.

It was while mak­ing his way back to his Mc Clean Trace home in Las Lo­mas af­ter the pow­er out­age that tragedy struck. The dark­ness, not his neme­sis this time.

He said, “They didn’t rob in the dark, they robbed in the light.”

Ramkissoon ex­plained how in a few min­utes, ban­dits pos­ing as po­lice of­fi­cers left him rat­tled.

“The dri­ver say you have any­thing il­le­gal, co­caine, you does smoke? I say no, he say ‘cor­po­ral, cor­po­ral come out and search him, he not telling the truth’ and when he come out he ask the same ques­tion and he take my ra­dio, a bowl with food and I had a bag, he dip he hand and take my Sam­sung A13.”

De­spite his dis­abil­i­ty, Ramkissoon has nev­er been daunt­ed, he has been liv­ing alone fol­low­ing his fa­ther’s death and has been sharp­en­ing his skills as a disc jock­ey, as he hopes to find em­ploy­ment through the skill.

But now, Ramkissoon said giv­en his med­ical con­di­tion, not be­ing able to con­nect leaves him in a vul­ner­a­ble po­si­tion.

“I does suf­fer from high blood pres­sure, if some­thing hap­pen to me, I can’t con­tact any­one. Al­so, my safe­ty now at risk as well.”

Ac­cord­ing to Ramkissoon, the mat­ter was re­port­ed to the Las Lo­mas po­lice. He said of­fi­cers cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly re­ject­ed be­ing be­hind the at­tack.

Ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the T&T Blind Wel­fare As­so­ci­a­tion, Ken­neth Suratt, yes­ter­day con­demned the at­tack and called for more to be done to pro­tect the most vul­ner­a­ble in so­ci­ety.

Any­one wish­ing to as­sist Ramkissoon can con­tact his rel­a­tive at 297-4613.