Woman's body found on police premises A shock discovery was made when the body of a San woman, Regina Kasxi Muhoka (age unknown), was found on the premises of the Omega 1 police station in the Bwabwata National Park on 30 November, nearly seven days after she had gone missing.Relatives of Muhoka, who preferred anonymity, said on 5 December that Muhoka was taken to the police station on the evening of 23 November after a drunken altercation with her brother-in-law, Mike Kambati.
They said Kambati was discharged but Muhoka was kept in custody, presumably for her to sober up.
The next morning her brother went to look for her at the police station because she had not returned home the previous evening.
The police reportedly told the brother that Muhoka had been released, but by then she was nowhere to be found. Her body was discovered 14 days later near a disused helicopter landing pad behind the police station. This spot is reportedly close to the adjacent highway.
“Her body was found inside the fence [on the police premises],” said one family member. “When the police found her they did not call her parents; they just called her younger brother.”
This family member went on to say: “We are suffering here. The police did not want to give us any real answers. She was in the hands of the police. Why didn''t anyone see what happened? How can it be that her body was right there and was not detected for so long?”
It is not yet clear what happened to Muhoka. The family was informed by the Omega police that Muhoka''s body was sent to the Rundu State Hospital for an autopsy.
This gruesome incident was not reported in the weekly police crime updates.
When contacted for comment, Chief Inspector Kauna Shikwambi of the police''s public relations department said she was completely unaware of the case and undertook to contact the Omega police station to find out what had happened.
Shikwambi on Monday afternoon confirmed the incident but said Muhoka was not incarcerated on the evening of 23 November because the police could not extract a statement from her.
She said Muhoka, as she was leaving the police station, got involved in another argument with an unnamed assailant who had chased her over the police fence and assaulted her.
Shikwambi said the assailant was caught and confessed that he had assaulted Muhoka.
CATHERINE SASMAN