Informed neighbours mobilised amass against the gang of armed thieves who abandoned yet hundreds of the oil paints outside and disappeared. The arrested Kemoue Justin, who hails from Bafang, told police officers of the Tenth Police District that he was only helping to transfer the booties for a group of people he never knew were thieves. Some people of the Bedi mob alerted the police after the catch and hinted them that the man had claimed to be a detective. It goes that the population quickly hemmed in when discovering that most members of the gang had left the building transporting a part of the property to a nearby unidentified vehicle.
But the alleged robber, who carried no weapon on him, told the police that the uniforms were given to him by the men he claims not to know. He said the thieves came to him, begged him to help them transfer the paints from the outside of the magazine, giving him the uniform to wear. “I didn’t know they were thieves,” he pleaded the police, before news men at the Central Police Station No. 2, in Logbaba where he was later conveyed to yesterday. The alleged robber, who put on a pair of dark trousers and a shirt beneath the uniform, further explained that the thieves had told him they picked up the uniforms drying in a compound from unspecified neighbourhood in Douala. He is being interrogated for information that will help in tracing other members of the gang.
The owner of the magazine told police he never sent anybody to the magazine, and beside he doesn’t know fake police man. Although Kemoue Justin seems not to collaborate, police say they can already have some evidence that can be used against him in a court.
