Police had to deploy additional members late on Monday night along Monte Christo Road in Okuryangava to divert traffic after an unruly mob of ‘struggle kids’ apparently stoned passing cars.
Khomas Regional Crime Investigations Coordinator Deputy Commissioner Silvanus Nghishidimbwa yesterday during at a media briefing at Wanaheda police station showed the two vehicles to the press that were apparently damaged by riotous ‘struggle kids’.
A Kombi carrying passengers was pelted with stones but luckily no one was injured. Windows however were broken while the back window of the canopy of a police four-wheel drive vehicle was also damaged. Five members of the police force were injured.
Deputy Commissioner Nghishidimbwa said police received a distress call late on Monday from motorists that chaos was reigning in Monte Christo Road.
“We were informed a group of the struggle kids was preventing motorists from traveling on that road. We urgently need someone to talk to these children to advise them that they are still out on bail and their case is trial-awaiting. Since the beginning of this month already seven cases were reported to police raging from malicious damage to property to robberies. We will not tolerate these kind of barbaric acts,” he warned
By Fifi Rhodes