Africa-Press – Namibia. POPULAR Democratic Movement (PDM) leader McHenry Venaani yesterday again requested minister of home affairs, immigration, safety and security Albert Kawana to explain why the Namibian Police were investigating the alleged theft of US$4 million from South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala game farm in the Limpopo province in 2020, while no case has been opened with the South African police.
This comes after the speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Peter Katjavivi, on Tuesday refused to entertain any questions related to the incident in parliament on an urgent basis.
Venaani wanted Kawana to explain why the Namibian Police was investigating the theft.
More than US$4 million (around N$60 million) hidden in furniture was allegedly stolen by a gang of Namibians living in South Africa.
The former head of the police’s criminal investigations directorate, commissioner Nelius Becker, in June 2020 compiled a report detailing the theft at Ramaphosa’s farm, as well as how Namibia plans to involve the Financial Intelligence Centre to take the matter further.
“It is widely reported within the media that president Hage Geingob allegedly allowed president Cyril Ramaphosa’s security apparatus to conduct extrajudicial operations in Namibia.
“We should not tolerate being treated like a 10th province of South Africa,” Venaani says.
Former South African spy boss and prisons head Arthur Fraser has accused Geingob and Ramaphosa of a high-level cover-up in concealing the theft.
“The arrest was executed by members of the Namibian Police upon reasonable suspicion that the suspect in question had committed some immigration-related offences in Namibia,” he said.
Venaani therefore asked Kawana on what grounds the Namibian Police have been deployed to arrest Namibian suspects.
“On what grounds were Namibians investigated without the registration of formal criminal proceedings in South Africa?” he asked.
Fraser, in a 48-page witness statement alleged that the head of Ramaphosa’s presidential protection unit, major general Wally Rhoode, had entered both countries, which was not legally processed through border control.
“On what grounds were Cyril Ramaphosa’s security apparatus allowed to freely conduct extrajudicial operations in Namibia? Do these operations not infringe upon the sovereignty of Namibia?” he asked.
Last week, Katjavivi also refused to allow Namibia Economic Freedom Fighters parliamentarian Kalimbo Iipumbu to pose a series of questions to prime minister Saara Kuugongelwa-Amadhila on why Namibians should continue to trust Geingob who features in every major corruption scandal of international proportion.
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