Crime and Courts

The chief magistrate, an Electoral Commission of Namibia’s regional coordinator and the minister of urban and rural development are in for a long wait after the High Court scheduled to hear their matter in June.

A 50-year-old man appeared in the Rundu Magistrate’s Court on Monday for the illegal cultivation of 29 plants of cannabis at Nkurenkuru.

Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) member and teacher Abed ‘Bishop’ Hishoono has asked the court to show mercy when deciding on how much he should fork out in a defamation suit filed against him by First Lady Monica Geingos.

A Windhoek resident, who is accused of raping his biological daughter several times and forcing her to abort the foetus after impregnating her, intends to apply for a discharge on some of the charges he faces in the Windhoek High Court.

The trial of former National Fishing Corporation of Namibia CEO Mike Nghipunya has been postponed to August.

A 27-year-old taxi driver, who was arrested at Rundu for allegedly raping a female passenger who boarded his vehicle in the wee hours of Saturday, was denied bail on Monday.

Three Chinese nationals were allegedly robbed of N$60 000 in cash and cellphones valued at N$49 400 at a shop in Omuthiya in the Oshikoto region on Friday afternoon.

First Lady Monica Geingos says false statements made by Independent Patriots for Change (IPC) member and northern-based teacher Abed ‘Bishop’ Hishoono, in a widely circulated video, were meant to score cheap political points.

A Namibian woman was left stranded when her luxury vehicle was declared forfeited to the State after prosecutor general Martha Imalwa obtained a preservation order.

The Khomas police have asked the public’s assistance in tracing three suspects who robbed a Southern Cross security company’s cash-in-transit vehicle of N$1.36 million last Wednesday at Nedbank’s Black Chain Shopping Mall branch in Katutura.