By Mustapha Jarju
Momodou Mbowe who has been claiming and parading himself as a police officer was, on Monday, arrested at Nyofelleh Village for alleged theft.
In a video shared with The Voice newspaper, Mbowe was found with a police warrant card and a baton charge with a cutlass in a yellow taxi that he was found with during the incident and told the crowd that he is a police officer but not regimented.
“The youths alleged that he stole a mobile phone, belonging to the shopkeeper whom he went to buy from. When asked by the crowd the reason why he stole the phone he responded I just found the phone at the door here, I picked up the phone to return it. We are here to solve the problem”, the impersonator Momodu Mbowe told the crowd.
The villagers speaking in the video expressed that, the particular shop that Mbowe was alleged to have stolen was in the past broken by thieves on two occasions, and this time they caught a man who claimed to be a police officer.
Confirming this incident from the police, Muhammed Y Darboe, the Deputy Public Relations Officer of the Gambia Police Force has told The Voice that, the Police Force is aware of the incident and they are investigating the matter at a high gear to confirm either the suspect (Momodou Mbowe) is a trained Police officer or not.