KATIMA MULILO – Police in the Zambezi region have charged an education officer for poaching after he was found with three buffalo carcasses loaded in a government vehicle that he was driving. It is alleged that the 46-year-old chief education officer in Zambezi was caught red-handed with buffalo meat valued at about N$60 000 on...
Regional Court Magistrate Kandiwapa Nembia yesterday identified 5 November as the date for the sentencing of former police reservist, Sakaria Kuutondokwa Kokule (51). This came after she heard arguments in mitigation and aggravation from defense and State counsels, Jermaine Muchali and Ian Malumani, respectively. Muchali asked the court to consider the more than four years...
High Court Judge Shafimana Ueitele yesterday ruled in favour of politician Job Amupanda that there will be no costs order in the main trial over the removal of the Veterinary Cordon Fence. Amupanda lodged a court application to remove the 1896 fence, describing it as a stark reminder of Apartheid and a blemish on Namibia’s...
A 31-year-old man, accused of killing his 19-year-old girlfriend, allegedly confessed to a police officer that he needed to be arrested because he had beaten up his girlfriend. Sergeant Emmekie Katupose yesterday told Windhoek High Court Judge Claudia Claasen that Lolo Tweumona Kambwela arrived at the Otjiwarongo police station, where she was on duty, and...
KATIMA MULILO – The Namibian Police Force (NamPol) in the Zambezi region on Friday handed over nine donkeys and three cattle that were stolen from Zambia to their lawful owners. The event took place at the Luhonono police station in eastern Zambezi, and was officiated by police station commander Farisi Munuko, as well as the...
Murder accused, Johannes Iikwiyu, yesterday fired his Legal Aid instructed lawyer Joseph Andreas, for conflicting instructions just after the lawyer confirmed his not guilty plea. Iikwiyu told Windhoek High Court Judge Philanda Christiaan that he no longer wants the services of Andreas, as the latter is not “invested” in his defence. He wanted the lawyer...
ONGWEDIVA – This year, 12 pastors and deacons from various local churches such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (Elcin), Roman Catholic Church and several revival churches, were reported to have committed crimes. The purported crimes which the men of cloth are said to have committed include rape, attempted murder, scamming, forgery and uttering....
KATIMA MULILO- A 52 year-old man tragically died after a car bumped him before it speed off at Kongola in the Zambezi region over the weekend. It is alleged that the unknown motorist bumped a cyclist to death and failed to stop the vehicle to ascertain the extent of the man’s injuries. According to Zambezi...
Auleria Wakudumo Police in Ohangwena region are investigating a case of murder after an Angolan boy was allegedly hit with a bottle by a 43-year-old mentally unstable man at Oshikunde village in Omundaungilo area on Friday. Ohangwena Crime Investigation Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner Melanie Mburuu, said that the 16-year-old boy was employed as a domestic worker. ...
RUNDU – 20-year-old Andreas Ihemba Kapupa who appeared on a charge of murder, was denied bail when he appeared in the Rundu magistrate court for murder of a security guard. The guard was stabbed to death with an okapi knife on Monday last week at Rundu’s Galaxy mall along Eugene Kakukuru Street in Rundu’s central...