Still no trace of Oshakati pensioner

The Oshana police's efforts to trace Johannes Shikongo, 67, also known as J. Malambo, who went missing in February this year, have proved futile.

“We have questioned a number of people who could possibly know Shikongo's whereabouts but all we have obtained was just hearsay.

There is no factual information as to where the missing man is as yet,” Deputy Commissioner Hilja Haipumbu told Namibian Sun.

Haipumbu urged members of the public with information on the whereabouts of the elderly man to come forward and assist the police.

Shikongo was last seen on the afternoon of 1 February this year in the Oshoopala location of Oshakati while he was tending to cattle with his 57-year-old nephew.

Shikongo had been living with his sister, Serestina Shikongo, 97, and her children at their home in the Ehenye township of Oshakati.

His nephew, who was the last person to see him, at the time told Namibian Sun that at around 10:00 on 1 February, his uncle was wearing a green T-shirt, brown pants, a white cap and sandals.

He said he picked up his uncle with his car at around 16:00 to help him gather his cattle in the floodplain behind the Oshoopala location.

“He rode in the back of the car and we went near the Sky Bridge where we found the cattle.

I told him not to get out of the car while I was driving the cattle home from the other side of the oshana.

While driving the cattle home I saw him get out of the car and when I returned he was nowhere to be seen,” the nephew said.

ILENI NANDJATO