PG denies report on docket’s disappearance

THE Police docket containing the results of an investigation into allegations of rape levelled against a well-known businessman in northern Namibia, Onesmus Tobias Amadhila, has not disappeared as was reported in a free corporate newspaper this week, Prosecutor General Martha Imalwa said yesterday.

The docket on Amadhila’s case was lying on her desk, Imalwa told The Namibian yesterday in reaction to a front-page report in Informante claimed yesterday that the docket had “mysteriously disappeared between the Police and the office of the Prosecutor General”. Imalwa said she was studying the docket in order to make a decision on whether or not to charge and prosecute Amadhila.”If there is evidence I can prosecute.If there is no evidence, I cannot prosecute”, she said, commenting that she cannot be put under pressure to make a decision either way.Amadhila issued a public statement through his lawyer, Sisa Namandje, in late July to deny claims, likewise reported in the same paper, that he had raped a daughter of his.Namandje also said that Amadhila denied claims that he had offered his daughter N$50 000, and the child’s mother N$20 000, in an effort to persuade them to withdraw the case against him.”Such allegations are false,” Namandje stated.According to Imalwa, Amadhila has not been charged yet.The Police had opted to first investigate the allegations and compile a docket, and this was what had been sent to her office for a decision on whether to charge Amadhila or not, she said.Imalwa said she was studying the docket in order to make a decision on whether or not to charge and prosecute Amadhila.”If there is evidence I can prosecute.If there is no evidence, I cannot prosecute”, she said, commenting that she cannot be put under pressure to make a decision either way.Amadhila issued a public statement through his lawyer, Sisa Namandje, in late July to deny claims, likewise reported in the same paper, that he had raped a daughter of his.Namandje also said that Amadhila denied claims that he had offered his daughter N$50 000, and the child’s mother N$20 000, in an effort to persuade them to withdraw the case against him.”Such allegations are false,” Namandje stated.According to Imalwa, Amadhila has not been charged yet.The Police had opted to first investigate the allegations and compile a docket, and this was what had been sent to her office for a decision on whether to charge Amadhila or not, she said.