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 Posted - 09 Nov 2009 : 14:56:48
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More Aggressive Lunatics on the Streets As 2 people fall victims
By Saikou Jammeh
The Police are sending an alarm that there could be more aggressive mentally imbalanced people on the streets of our society capable of killing more people.
This came in the wake of the killing of a 52 year-old woman in the person of Adama Jatta, a residence of Jambur village by Mr. Sulayman Ceesay, a Guinean national confirmed to be insane.
Mrs. Adama Jatta was found dead at around the hours of 22.00 to 22.30 on Thursday, 29th October 2009 when she went to her rice field and did not return home. Her head was cut –off, and part of her arm was skinned and taken away, according to local media reports.
This incident occurred while tears were still fresh on the killing of a watchman in Kanifing, who was on his way home having retired from night work at wee hours, only to be hit on the head to death with a metal rod also allegedly perpetuated by a madman.
The Police Crime Management Coordinator Yankuba Sonko, speaking during a press briefing convened to shed light on the Jambur killing decried the increasing number of abnormal people on the streets, but said they are constrained to act on the situation.
“We cannot just keep them or detain them at the police station forever,” Sonko told journalists in Banjul.“Coming to the medical condition, if they are taken to the hospital and the doctor says that the person is fit to be in the society, we cannot confine them”.
he said he would urge the medical services to consider that situation “because we have lot of lunatics and with that, the government has recently built a mental facility in the Kombo’s and this could help. Even if they are kept, some do escape and then next thing is to see them roaming the streets”.
For him, there is a lack of proper communication between the public and the police and also between the police and the medical services, which he said makes it difficult to solve the problem of doing away with violent lunatics in the midst of society“The police cannot be aware of all these happenings,” he explained, “and sometimes, the public comes very late when something happenes.
“Coming back to the recent murder, somebody has been chasing people in that area, and there was no body who has come to the police to report it and we did not also know. He thus called for what he described as “teamwork” between them, the public and medical officers in order to cut down the emerging lunatic killings.
Meanwhile the suspected killer is apprehended, but not yet charged with any offence, the police sources say. And as soon as a charge is a pressed against him, he will appear before the court, which will be done anytime soon, the police assured.
Source: Daily News
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