By Staff Reporter
WINDHOEK
The public should be on high alert to a new plague of criminality that is hitting the streets of Windhoek where drivers and their cars are the targets, said a near-victim, Andre Moller.
Moller, who works at NamCol in Katutura, had his car nearly hijacked when two men approached him while he stopped at a red robot opposite the Caltex service station along Independence Avenue, last week around two in the afternoon as he was driving back to work.
“One guy approached me at the driver’s side of the car and told me there was something wrong with my right rear wheel,” recalled Moller.
“The moment I opened my door, the other doors opened automatically because I have central locking. A second man was on the other side of the car and tried to jump in.”
Moller fortunately foiled the attempt when he managed to get the hijackers away from his car.
Another female victim was not so lucky. On Monday, two men jumped into her car at the same spot, and demanded that she drives away while holding a knife to her throat. She did however also get away after two men who witnessed the incident followed the victim’s car and decided to help her. They were able to force the hijackers to stop and release the woman at the traffic lights opposite Katutura Hospital.
The two hijackers reportedly then took flight.
Yet another incident occurred outside a parking lot at the Catholic Hospital, behind Shoprite Checkers, when two men approached a woman with the same story: that her back rear wheel was faulty.
The second man tried to open the left front door, but the two ran away when the driver noticed that something was amiss.