News Feed: A resident of Swakopmund in the Erongo Region says a police officer abused his power by assaulting him at a club recently for no apparent reason. Maxwell Mbaha is furious after he was allegedly assaulted by a certain Lampard, a member of the Namibian Police (NamPol) Special Field Force (SFF) at New Edition Club in Swakopmund on the 27 December last year. Mbaha said the officer hit him twice in the jaw with a fist and elbow, and then pushed him against the wall, causing his jaw to swell for some days. He told Nampa in an interview at his house in the Tamariskia residential area on Monday, that Lampard and other police officers came to the nightclub at around 02h00 and found him drinking with some friends outside the club, as it was already past closing time. “He told us to go and when I said we are not inside a club but outside in a public place, he said I am undermining his authority and he beat me up, handcuffed me and threw me in a police van,” said Mbaha. He also accused the police officer of pouring beer on him. One of Mbaha’s friends, a member of the Namibian Navy Air Wing, who wishes to remain anonymous, told this news agency on Monday that he was detained together with Mbaha that same night. “I asked why he is beating up my friend and he said if I want to know I must also go with him to the [police] station. I told him that Im not a civilian and showed him my card, but they picked me up and threw me in the van too,” said the soldier. The two friends said they slept in the police holding cells and were released about seven hours later. No charges were laid against them. What do you make of this brutality?
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:59:34 +0000
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