United National Congress Senator David Nakhid is calling for tighter security at commercial banks after he says he was followed from a Maraval bank branch and later had his car broken into outside a supermarket, and money and valuables stolen from the back seat of the vehicle on Monday.

He was robbed of $10,000 plus thousands more in perfume when a bandit broke into his car that was parked at the Cascade supermarket. The robbery took two minutes.

Police said around 4.15 p.m. Nakhid had parked and secured his black Mercedes-Benz at the car park of Simple Choice Mart and walked in.