KINGSTON, Jamaica — Member of Parliament for South East St Ann and newly minted treasurer of the People’s National Party (PNP), Lisa Hanna, today took to her Instagram page pleading with farm thieves to think about the livelihoods they are affecting following an attempted theft of a cow at Coultart in the parish this morning.

“I have seen so much of this behaviour in South East over the years, where people come as far as Portmore and steal people livestock from our communities,” Hanna said in her post.

“You know what it’s like for a farmer to grow a cow or a goat and a man come tief dem? Is an awful something‼ Worse when they pull up in a car and stuff the live animal in it?”

Efforts by OBSERVER ONLINE to get details surrounding this morning’s incident from the police’s Corporate Communications Unit proved futile; however Hanna related that the quick response from the Claremont police saw the cow thieves being apprehended in their escape vehicle.

Hanna divulged that the cow is now at the police station and three of the four men in police custody.

“Full time onnuh stop tief people tings! Trust me. People would never understand especially when a goat is in kid and dem tief it! So much time is spent with the animals,” an irate Hanna reasoned.

“And is like the people don’t want to work and just sit and wait until dem grow then come fi them. People grow these animals for tuition fees for their children, medical fees for their themselves, and just to live chu! Some of dem tief yah cyah even grow themselves much less another living thing.

“Leave people things alone in Jesus name,” she added.

At the same time, Hanna encouraged residents to join her tomorrow at the Moneague Primary and Junior High School at 4:30 pm where she will be hosting a community meeting with the residents and police to discuss the upsurge in robberies in Moneague over the past two weeks.