WINDHOEK – The head of the Namibian Police Public Relations Division, Deputy Commissioner Edwin Kanguatjivi, also became part of the festive season crime statistics in Namibia when the son of his sister, 27-year-old Tete Kanguatjivi was shot and critically wounded during a burglary at his Khomasdal flat.
According to information available the younger Kanguatjivi and his girlfriend were asleep in their flat at Blueberry Court in Khomasdal’s Diamond Street on Sunday morning when the girlfriend heard noise at around 02h40. When Kanguatjivi went to investigate he came across three burglars, one of whom was armed with a firearm. It is said that Kanguatjivi immediately started to fight the intruders. In the process he was shot in the stomach and the shooter then apparently ran off. His two accomplices did not want to leave empty-handed so they gathered what they could, including two laptops and two cellphones before they escaped. Police investigations continue and no arrests have been made yet. In another breaking and entering escapade a suspect also armed with a firearm broke a window at a house in Okarumundu Street in Wanaheda on Saturday morning at around 05h02 and held the owner at gunpoint. The robber got away with N$300. Police investigations continue and no arrest was made. No good deed goes unpunished says the proverb. This was indeed true for a man from the Havana informal settlement last Friday morning when he escorted his girlfriend home. Upon his return three suspects who had followed him, asked him for some beer. When he opened his establishment to sell them the beer one of the suspects followed him behind the counter and robbed him at gunpoint. The victim was also stabbed and tied up and the robbers took N$3 880 in cash, three CD’s and four bottles of Tassenberg wine. Police investigations continue and no arrests were made.
Also in Havana last Thursday morning at around 12h00, three suspects broke into a house. The victim allegedly heard a noise and when she went to investigate found the suspects already in her corrugated zinc room after they cut through the zinc. They held her at gunpoint and took from her N$2 000 in cash and an unspecified amount of N$10 recharge vouchers. It was further said that the victim’s neighbour who is a taxi driver arrived at the moment and as the robbers mistook his vehicle for that of the police they opened fire at the vehicle. Luckily the driver escaped unhurt. Police investigations continue and no arrests were made.
Another break-in was reported this morning after unknown thieves disconnected the alarm to the premises, removed the aluminium front door and cut open the safe. The suspect(s) then removed a Bank Windhoek ATM machine at the premises and removed the cash inside it also. It is not known how much money was in the safe or the ATM machine. No arrests were made and police investigations continue. A case of culpable homicide was opened by the Namibian Police after an unknown pedestrian was hit and killed on Mandume Ndemufayo Street last Friday.
Police are asking members of the public who miss a family member to go to the police mortuary to identify the deceased.
By Roland Routh