Fishrot accused James Hatuikulipi used to be allegedly realized with a smartphone in his cell at the Windhoek Correctional Facility the earlier day morning, head of the power deputy commissioner Veikko Armas acknowledged.

Armas, nevertheless, acknowledged he would not know the blueprint the Samsung mobile phone realized its blueprint into Hatuikulipi’s possession, but the subject is being investigated.

He added that Hatuikulipi would be field to a disciplinary hearing in terms of the smuggled instrument.

“After the investigation has been accomplished, he’ll appear sooner than a disciplinary hearing,” he acknowledged.

This is the third time Hatuikulipi, who has been fingered as the mastermind within the abet of the Fishrot corruption scandal, has been realized with a mobile phone all the blueprint in which via the correctional facility.

Early closing year Hatuikulipi and worn justice minister Sacky Shanghala, who is additionally a trial staring at for suspect within the Fishrot scandal, had been realized in possession of cellphones.

In 2020, he and any other Fishrot co-accused, Pius Mwatelulo – who is a relative of his, had been additionally allegedly realized in possession of mobile telephones.

The Correctional Service Act prohibits being in possession of a mobile phone at a facility the attach one is lawfully detained.

Commissioner total of the Namibia Correctional Service, Raphael Hamunyela urged The Namibian closing year that a selection of inmates at the Windhoek Correctional Facility had been smuggling treatment and cellphones into detention heart by hiding them of their physique cavities.

Hamunyela acknowledged many cellphones are realized smuggled into detention heart by inmates on a day-to-day foundation.

At the time Hamunyela acknowledged about 1 000 telephones had been confiscated from inmates at the Windhoek Correctional Service alone.

Hamunyela connected that an inmate landed in clinical institution and needed to hold an operation after he save a mobile phone and mandrax up his rectum.

“The inmate used to be not in a attach to make employ of the lavatory for 2 days for the explanation that mobile phone used to be in a horizontal attach. His rectum used to be blocked,” Hamunyela acknowledged at the time.

Inmates’ members of the family are generally guilty of smuggling telephones and other devices into detention heart hidden in birthday cakes and Bibles, Hamunyela acknowledged.

“They prick the pages and hide the contraband within the Bible, and produce it as a reward for the inmate. You would not deem there might be one thing else,” he acknowledged.