The suspect, identified only as Roy, was apprehended at Ve-Golokuati
Police have arrested a man posing as a military officer for allegedly stealing a motorbike from a commercial motor rider, popularly known as an okada rider, at Kadjebi in the Oti Region, according to myjoyonline.com report.
According to the report, the suspect, identified only as Roy, was apprehended at Ve-Golokuati following a coordinated police alert after he allegedly absconded with the victim’s motorbike.
The victim, Manasseh Tomey, 24, has stated that the incident occurred on Monday November 3, 2025 around 10:00 a.m. when the suspect, dressed in military mufti, approached him and requested to be taken to a place where he could buy waakye.
Tomey said he took the suspect to Kadjebi Zongo, where he bought the food and later to Wobube Guest House near the Kadjebi Cocoa Market, where the man claimed he intended to lodge. The suspect also requested Tomey’s phone number, which he willingly provided.
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According to the rider, around 4:00 p.m., the suspect called again asking him to buy drinking water. Shortly after, he requested to use the motorbike briefly to deliver an item to the Okanta Police barrier.
“Trusting him because he looked like a soldier, I gave him the motorbike. But after several attempts to reach him by phone, I realized he had vanished,” Tomey is quoted to have recounted.
After a while he became suspicious, he went to the Okanta Police barrier, where officers confirmed that no one matching the suspect’s description had passed through. Police posts along the route were then alerted.
Later that evening, around 9:00 p.m, Tomey received a call from officers at the Ve-Golokuati Police barrier that a man fitting the suspect’s description had been arrested. Upon arrival, he identified the suspect as the same person who had stolen his motorbike.
Inspector Emmanuel Agbeworley, Station Officer in charge of the Kadjebi Police Station, confirmed the arrest.
He said the suspect was transferred to Kadjebi and arraigned before court on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
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