Ex G4S guard Shipanga says he took bag of Namdia diamonds

Former G4S security guard Samuel Shipanga (34) has admitted to the police that he took four plastic bags containing diamonds from Namdia during a robbery last January.

In a statement given under oath on 15 April last year, Shipanga, who also handcuffed one of the robbery suspects, Sam Shololo, says diamonds were scattered throughout the building during the incident.

“When I turned next to the back of one black car, I found a plastic of diamonds and I picked it up and went outside. It was a small plastic, and I put it in my pocket,” Shipanga confesses.

He told investigators that when he arrived home the following morning at around 08h00, he went to his cousin, Immanuel Iipinge, who owned a garage at Goreangab in Windhoek, and gave him the four plastic bags of diamonds.

“I gave the diamonds to him, thinking maybe he will know how to sell them. One plastic had six diamonds while the other three plastics I did not count, but each plastic had approximately eight diamonds inside in different shapes,” Shipanga says in his statement.

He says his cousin told him he knew how to deal with the stones.