Former UDP Candidate Arrested

Information reaching The Point has it that Mr Ousman Jallow, the UDP candidate in Jokadu in the last parliamentary elections, who also contested in Kerr Jarga Ward in the just concluded Local Government elections, has been arrested. According to our North Bank Region sources, Ousman was on Monday morning arrested in Kerewan.

The sources indicated that Mr Jallow had had a meeting with the Governor of the area, Mr. Edward Seckan, apparently in the matter of an Alkaloship dispute in his village, Bantanding Wollof.

During the meeting at the Governor’s office, according to the sources, Mr. Jallow was secretly recording his conversation with the Governor.

“When Ousman Jallow stood up to leave at the end of the meeting the Governor, who became suspicious, knowingly but furtively dropped his pen on the floor and asked Mr Jallow to pick it for him. When Mr Jallow bent down to pick the pen, the recorder fell from his pocket and the police were then called to arrest him,” said the sources.