Pressure continues to mount on police commander and head of Anti-Crime Unit Gorgui Mboob over torture allegations. 

Scores of Gambians, many of whom are rights activists, have taken to social media demanding the sacking of Gorgui Mboob. 

Among the dozens of people calling forhis sacking includes Madi Jobarteh, a human rights activist who wrote on Facebook “I hereby demand IGP Mamour Jobe to arrest Gorgui Mboob ASAP if not I demand Pres. Barrow to sack both of them ASAP & prosecute them for negligence of duty, abuse of power, violation of citizen rights & Police brutality.”

Couch-Pasamba Jow, a US-based Gambian activist also wrote:”exactly one year after this post, we are yet again confronted with barbarism from the discredited “anti-crime unit”. How many more Gambians must be abused before something is done?”

Another rights activist and economist, Nyang Njie, said on Facebook:”Only in Gambia will a serial rights violator & a self confessed ‘liar’ wear the peoples uniform & abuse the very masters he serve.”

Another Europe-based Gambian activist, Sarjo Tamba, also said:”criminal in uniform is more dangerous than a career criminal in the streets. We have a lot of his type wearing our nation uniform.”

Commander Mboob was accused by Ebrima Sanneh of subjecting him to force labour and hitting him on his genital with a hoe. 

Mboob has denied the allegations of torture and claimed that Ebrima Sanneh fell while he was farming.