EDITORIAL: Rogue from within
The escape from prison by Chinese poaching convict Wang Hui reeks of a well-coordinated getaway plan, enabled by officials within the system.
It cannot be purely coincidental that on the day Wang left the Windhoek Correctional Facility, for supposed routine duty in Brakwater, he had a getaway vehicle waiting for him at the very venue prison wardens drove him to – and at that particular hour.
The Machiavellian manner in which Wang disappeared from the face of Namibia, into unknown obscurity, could not have happened without the aid of unscrupulous, rogue officers within the system.
The suspension of four officers in this regard is a step in the right direction, but authorities need to be firm on this matter, which in the boarder sense has serious national security implications.
If foreign convicts are aided by people within the system to escape the country, in a manner only seen in Hollywood blockbusters, we ought to be genuinely scared.
However, changes in the system - along with greater accountability - could rendered the corrupt warden character an anachronism.
This was related to poaching, a national catastrophe at the moment. But this could have been any other criminal – a killer or serial rapist on a rampage.
For a dime, corrupt prison officers will stop at nothing to please their paymasters, who are then released back into society to wreak further havoc. The culprits must face the full wrath of our law.
It cannot be purely coincidental that on the day Wang left the Windhoek Correctional Facility, for supposed routine duty in Brakwater, he had a getaway vehicle waiting for him at the very venue prison wardens drove him to – and at that particular hour.
The Machiavellian manner in which Wang disappeared from the face of Namibia, into unknown obscurity, could not have happened without the aid of unscrupulous, rogue officers within the system.
The suspension of four officers in this regard is a step in the right direction, but authorities need to be firm on this matter, which in the boarder sense has serious national security implications.
If foreign convicts are aided by people within the system to escape the country, in a manner only seen in Hollywood blockbusters, we ought to be genuinely scared.
However, changes in the system - along with greater accountability - could rendered the corrupt warden character an anachronism.
This was related to poaching, a national catastrophe at the moment. But this could have been any other criminal – a killer or serial rapist on a rampage.
For a dime, corrupt prison officers will stop at nothing to please their paymasters, who are then released back into society to wreak further havoc. The culprits must face the full wrath of our law.
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