KAHENGE – Police are investigating the robbery that took place at Mbambi village in the Kavango West Region last Sunday.
Four robbers masquerading as law enforcers and dressed in police uniforms mounted a fake roadblock and stopped a truck and robbed its 50-year-old driver, it is alleged.
The Crime Investigations Coordinator in the Kavango regions, Deputy Commissioner Willie Bampton yesterday told New Era the bogus cops robbed the truck driver of N$18 000 and not N$180 000 as reported earlier. The criminals also relieved the truck driver of a pistol valued at N$6 000 after they ordered him to get out of the truck. Bampton told New Era the five suspects allegedly assaulted the victim with an iron bar and also threatened him with his own pistol, after which they manhandled him and tied him up before they left the scene with their loot.
The suspects remain unknown according to the police, but the victim said he will be able to identify them if he sees them. It is also not known how the suspects got hold of the police uniforms. A police investigation is underway.
By John Muyamba