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Original Post Date: 2008-04-21 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
A South African-based NGO will miss out on a R9,4-million sponsorship deal from international donors after the organisation’s director and two West African colleagues were robbed after leaving OR Tambo International Airport.
Kelebogile Resana, of Youth for Christ International, and two of his colleagues from Burkina Faso and Benin were ambushed by a gang of gun-wielding men earlier this year after he had picked them up from the airport.
Resana is the regional director of the organisation, which runs several outreach and empowerment programmes for young people in six southern African countries and also operates in 120 countries around the world.
The incident occurred on January 25 after Resana had picked up his colleagues, Josue Akwona and Emmanuel Sam, at OR Tambo.
| ‘They knew that my car had all the stuff they wanted’ |
At about 5.45pm, he arrived at his home in Edenglen, Edenvale.
His wife, who had arrived from work at the same time, pulled into the driveway behind Resana’s vehicle.
“The dogs were barking for no apparent reason when all of a sudden I saw this man with a gun in the yard who told me to hold the dog. I did as he told me and then he said ‘this is a robbery and I am serious about it’,” Resana recalled.
Resana said two other men joined the gunman and proceeded to open his boot.
The gang stole all his guests’ luggage, including laptops, digital cameras and about $1 000 (R7 800) and 1 200 francs (R2 200) in cash.
“It was a scary experience. After they took everything, they pushed us all in the garage. They left my wife in her car because she told them she was a quadriplegic and needed to be carried,” he said.
The men sped off in a red getaway vehicle.
Resana, who travels in and out of the country regularly, said on Sunday he believed the gang must have followed them from the airport because they never touched his wife’s car.
“I told the police that they knew that my car had all the stuff they wanted and not my wife’s,” he said.
Resana said that because of this robbery, an international general assembly conference of the church, which is to be held in South Africa at the end of the year, was almost relocated to another country because delegates feared for their safety.
“We have also lost $1,2-million from our main sponsors for the planned event because they said the country was not safe and feared people coming here. They almost moved the entire event to another country and only after pleading with them were we able to convince our superiors to host the conference here,” he said.
But some people will be boycotting the conference, Resana said, as almost a third of international guests have withdrawn their registration.
Since the robbery, Resana said he is now forced to use a security company to escort him home after arriving at OR Tambo.
Last week, two men appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court after being linked to four separate incidents of robbing people shortly after they arrived from the airport.
Police have established a task team to probe a series of robberies linked to tourists arriving at OR Tambo.