BRAVE Gladiators vice captain Stacey Naris is recuperating in Katutura Intermediate Hospital after falling victim to an alleged failed hijacking in Windhoek on Saturday.
The incident occurred at an intersection near Windhoek’s Lafrenz Industrial Area on Saturday evening when the would-be hijackers attacked Naris and a female friend.
Sensing the danger, her friend began to drive off, but not before one of the attackers had managed to open the passenger door and yanked Naris out of the car.
“I was pulled out of a moving vehicle and ended up under the wheels of the car,” Naris, who doubles as communications officer for the Namibia Football Players Union, told on Monday.
“Her side of the door was locked so nothing happened to her. They didn’t [take any possessions]; they fled the scene when I was under the car. It all happened so fast.”
A nasty injury from the attack has left the 27-year-old defender “unable to move around” at the moment. A relative was due “to open a case” with the police yesterday, she said.
“Luckily I didn’t sustain any fractures, but I got a bad open wound on the front of my foot. A piece if my flesh needs to be removed and placed on the wound,” Naris said.
Naris is the second member of Nafpu to be involved in such an incident this year, following the hijacking of the union’s president, Sylvester ‘Lolo’ Goraseb, in Windhoek’s Olympia suburb in late February.
He sustained head injuries from being struck with a sharp object.
Days later, the union’s outspoken secretary general, Olsen Kahiriri, was involved in a car crash on the Hochfeld road, while travelling from Okondjatu back to Windhoek with his two daughters, a son and an eight-month-old grandchild, as well as an acquaintance.
Kahiriri’s calamity left him with an injured back and broken ribs, while one of his daughters sustained leg and neck injuries, and one ended up in ICU. His son and grandchild did not sustain any injuries, with the driver escaping with minor hand injuries.
