Kidnapping couple appear in court

Kidnapping couple appear in court The couple accused of kidnapping two-year-old Miguel Ndakula Hinaunye Aluvilu in Swakopmund last week made their first appearance in the Outapi Magistrate's Court yesterday.

Elina Nangula Jonas (27) and Eita Titus (27) appeared before Magistrate Walter Mikiti on a charge of kidnapping.

Jonas and Titus were not asked to plead and the case was postponed to 16 January 2017. The case will be heard in the Swakopmund Magistrate's Court.

The two were arrested on Wednesday after Titus's father, Abrosius Nakale, took them to the Outapi police station.

Nakale said he became suspicious when he heard that the police were looking for a couple with an abducted child, just days after his son had brought a baby boy to his homestead at Oshikuluwala in Ombandja in Angola and said it was his son.

According to sources Jonas had told Titus she was pregnant with his child and that she had given birth to a baby boy. She then allegedly kidnapped the child of her friend, Ndahafa Namweya (25) and presented it to Titus as his child.

Namweya last saw her son on Wednesday last week when she gave Jonas permission to take him out for pizza. When they didn't return, she called the police.

Jonas and Titus were escorted to Swakopmund yesterday where they will be kept in police custody until their next court appearance.

The boy is expected to be reunited with his mother today.

KENYA KAMBOWE