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Police actively looking for Otjiwarongo doctor

POLICE yesterday said they were actively looking for the Otjiwarongo doctor who was caught on camera driving recklessly on the B1 road last week.

The doctor, Yeukai Chiradza, has a warrant of arrest issued by the Karibib Magistrate’s Court after he failed to appear in court for a homicide case concerning a 2015 accident in which three people were killed.

Deputy commissioner Edwin Kanguatjivi said apart from knowing that the doctor was in Windhoek, the police do not know his exact whereabouts.

A Windhoek doctor, who asked not to be named for professional reasons, told The Namibian yesterday that he was rehabilitating Chiradza.

The doctor said Chiradza’s family told him that the police know exactly where the fugitive from justice is in Windhoek.

“In fact, they told me that they could not make it [to the treatment session] because they were meeting the police,” the doctor explained.

Kanguatjivi, however, said he was not aware of the meeting, and that the police would effect the warrant of arrest as directed by the court.

According to him, a psychological problem should not stop an officer from arresting a suspect.

Kanguatjivi said the police could not arrest a suspect if they are in a hospital, or when doing so would put a life at risk.

“Then only will we report back to the court that the person is in hospital under police supervision,” he stated.

Konrad Louw, whose wife, Welmine Louw, died in the 2015 accident involving Chiradza, said his life came to a standstill when his wife and son Konrad Louw Jr perished on the road between Karibib and Usakos.

Louw also lost a sister-in-law, Alet Junius.

Louw said his son was supposed to carry his name forward, and now “he is just gone”.

“I can no longer be a father to a son. I used to play with my son. Physically, I am already old. Even if I have a son today, what type of father will I be to my son if I cannot do anything with him? What type of father will I be at 85 to a young man?” Louw asked.

He added that he does not even have a home anymore because the warmth of his late wife and son is no longer there.

“Things are not the same anymore. My daughter would previously come with our grandchildren, and my wife would cook, and we would have a beautiful time.

“Although my daughter still comes and we still cook and eat together, that void is there, and things are just not the same,” Louw told The Namibian.

He added that it pains him to know that someone who killed three people and is allegedly an addict, is allowed on the national roads.

“Why is he still driving? That man deserves to be behind bars. He turned my life upside down,” Louw stressed.

He also said that apart from that, Chiradza never even picked up the phone to apologise, and knowing that he continues to drive recklessly is “very, very painful”.

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