By Lamin Njie
Police in The Gambia have arrested three people who ran a gang that specialised in stealing goats.
Momodou Bah, Alfusainey Bah and Ndeneh Ndow were arrested at the weekend after their gang was smashed by a police taskforce.
Police spokesman Lamin Njie told journalists at the Serrekunda Police Station where the suspects and the stolen goats were paraded on Monday: “In each of our police regions, we usually have a taskforce, that is a joint patrol team and this joint patrol team existing in the Kanifing Region is the one that was patrolling around Abuko near the GNPC Petrol Station.
“They found a taxi parked. This taxi was with no number which provoked curiosity of our officers and as a result of that they went to find out who is the individual in this taxi and they realised that it is one of these people and that is Modou Bah.
“They searched the taxi and found out there are signs that some animals were in this taxi and then that resulted to further investigation. Further investigations revealed that on the whole this individual is involved in stealing cattle and he went all the way to Manjai to sell them out. He led the investigators to Manjai only to realise that…
“Because according to his initial explanation he was like he was having two goats and he sold them out but when he went with investigators to Manjai they realised that there were eight other animals that were either sold by him or these other two people.”
