They were specialised in seizing motorbikes and assaulting their riders, using firearms.

Judicial Police in Douala have arrested two armed bandits who assaulted a motorbike rider at the “Camp des Officiers” in the Bepanda neighbourhood on the night of October 22 breaking 23, doing away with his bike. It was about 3:30am that the victim had his Sanili bike seized from him by the bandits armed with an automatic pistol.

The police who were on patrol around Akwa followed used the description of the two bandits and successfully stopped two suspected men on a bike around Marché Congo. Twenty-three-year old Darisse Keda and Cedric Momo, 25, all former prison detainees of the Douala New Bell Prison, were in possession of an automatic pistol. The two admitted having seized the motorbike from its owner at “Camp des Officiers” that same night and cited a certain Zammer as a regular buyer of stolen bikes.

They are presently helping the police for further investigations while awaiting to appear before the State Counsel of the Military Tribunal in Bonanjo for aggravated theft and illegal detention of firearms.