Ndeitunga breathes fire over rhino horns

Police inspector general Sebastian Ndeitunga yesterday said he will take stiff measures on officers who were on duty at Hosea Kutako International Airport when the Chinese national smuggled 18 rhino horns out of Namibia.

Ye Zhiwei (28) was arrested on Wednesday last week at the OR Tambo International Airport, South Africa, when scanners detected the rhino horns in his luggage. He was catching a connecting flight to Hong Kong.

On the same day, Ye went through Hosea Kutako where, according to the Namibia Airports Company chief executive officer Tamer El-Kallawi, the scanners detected the horns but he was not arrested.

Ndeitunga also told The Namibian yesterday that Ye's contraband was detected by the scanners but officers on duty chose to ignore the rhino horns in his luggage.