Police point to Shikwaya as financier in acid murder

Detective chief inspector Antonius Gabriel yesterday described murder accused Petrus Shikwaya as the “lubricant machinery” and financier behind the killing of prosecutor Justine Shiweda.

Gabriel was testifying in opposition to Shikwaya’s bail application in the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

According to the detective, Shikwaya played a central role in the alleged plot that culminated in Shiweda’s death last year by funding the purchase of acid used in the attack and providing fuel for the vehicle that transported the substance to Ondangwa.

“Had the applicant not been sending money to buy the acid that killed Shiweda and providing fuel for the vehicle that transported the acid to Ondangwa, the deceased would not have been killed,” Gabriel told the court.

The investigator further alleged that Shikwaya also purchased the vehicle that was used to transport the acid to northern Namibia.