Windhoek
The construction of the traffic courts at the premises of the Windhoek City Police is in progress.
Early this year this newspaper reported that plans were at an advanced stage to build a traffic court complex in Windhoek, which will deal with the escalating number of traffic offenders.
The Windhoek City Police said at the time that the area identified for the courts was the City Police premises, at the intersection of Bismark Street and Sam Nujoma Drive.
The City Police chief Abraham Kanime had approached the Ministry of Justice on the possibility of having courts that would solely focus on traffic violations in the Khomas Region.
Kanime said the municipal courts were still under construction but could not say when they would be completed: “The date of completion is still unknown but work is progressing well.”
Simon Tangeni Idipo, senior public relations officer in the Ministry of Justice, previously said the ministry would be ready to deploy human capital to run the courts as soon as the City Police completed their construction.
“The City Police agreed that it will bear the total costs in constructing the two courts and the Ministry of Justice’s mandate was, and remains, to provide the staff that will run the courts. After the courts are constructed is when our responsibility begins, but as of now the ministry is still waiting for the building (courts) to be finished, then we can deploy personnel to operate them,” explained Idipo.
NamPol Warrant Officer Zachariah Amakali was quoted by Nampa as saying 17 923 warrants of arrest were issued to motorists who violated traffic laws but failed to pay their admission of guilt fines.
Some of the warrants of arrest were issued as far back as 2009.