Maria David
THE 21-year-old Johannes Shatipamba Nangolo, a learner at Shaanika Nashilongo Secondary School died after he was shot by Angolan Police officers in the Otilindi location inside Angola.
Omusati Regional Police Commander, Commissioner Titus Shikongo confirmed the incident and said the shooting occurred at around 01:08 on Sunday morning.
According to Shikongo, the deceased went to Angola to visit his grandmother on the 18th of May, where they were having a party with his siblings at his brother’s shebeen at Otilindi Location, inside Angola.
“At around 22:00, an Angolan police officer, who is stationed at Okapalelona Border Post, reportedly came into the shebeen and ordered the owner to close the business,” he said.
Shikongo stated that this allegedly prompted an argument with fellow Angolan Police Officers who are stationed at the Otilindi Post.
He added that the Angolan police officer then went to their camp where he collected a firearm before returning to the shebeen and repeating his demand that the business must be closed. The police officer then got onto a motorbike and drove off.
“After the second confrontation the shebeen owner then decided to close up and gave his vehicle to Nangolo to go and drop off some elderly women at their homesteads,” he said.
Shikongo said that when Nangolo was about to drive off to drop the women, two Angolan police officers arrived in a vehicle and ordered that the owner’s vehicle must stop.
“The occupants including the driver allegedly disembarked from the vehicle and one Angolan police officer walked towards the driver and shot him with a pistol through the head before getting back in the police vehicle and leaving the scene,” he cited.
He indicated that the deceased sustained critical head injuries and that he was rushed to the Outapi District Hospital before being transferred to the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital.
Shikongo said that Nangolo succumbed to his wounds while he was admitted to the hospital a few hours after his arrival in Osshakati Shikongo said that local investigators confirmed that the suspect is an Angola Police officer that is stationed at the Okapalelona Border Post.
He said that a case of murder was registered in Angola and that the law enforcement agencies of that country have already started with the investigation.
