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TWO robbery suspects remain in Police custody after appearing in a Windhoek court last week in connection with an alleged carjacking carried out four weeks ago by a robber dressed in a Windhoek City Police uniform.

Four people, including two South African pilots visiting Namibia, were robbed in the incident in which two men – one of them dressed in a dark-blue uniform – held them at gunpoint in Klein Windhoek on the evening of December 19.
The robbery took place after the uniformed man had stopped the vehicle and asked the people inside for identification. When he was in turn asked to identify himself, he pulled out a firearm and ordered the four occupants out of the car.
The two men then got into the car and drove off, with the four occupants’ belongings – including handbags, cellphones and wallets – still inside.
The hijacked car was later found abandoned in the Havana area in northwest Windhoek.
Members of the Namibian Police’s Serious Crime Unit have arrested and charged two suspects in connection with the incident so far.
Windhoek residents Maveipi Patriot Andima (24) and Gert Claasen (25) made a second appearance in the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday last week. They face counts of robbery, theft of a motor vehicle, and impersonating a Police officer.
According to the Police, Andima was the first of the suspects to be arrested. He made a first court appearance on December 29.
It is claimed that a Windhoek City Police uniform, two of the wallets stolen during the robbery, and the jack of the stolen vehicle were found at Andima’s home in Okuryangava.
Claasen was arrested on December 30. He made a first court appearance on January 2.
With their second appearance in court on last week, Magistrate Helvi Shilemba postponed the two suspects’ case to March 16 for further investigations to be carried out. She ordered that they should remain in custody in the meantime.