AU summit delegate robbed in Johannesburg
Xinhua, June 11, 2015 Adjust font size:
A Nigerian delegate attending the 25th African Union (AU) summit was robbed by bogus cops here, local police confirmed on Thursday.
Gabriel Gundo, a Nigerian official, was traveling from OR Tambo International Airport to Sandton, where the summit is being held, when he was stopped by men posing as police officers on Wednesday night, local police spokesperson Colonel Lungelo Dlamini said.
The 55-year-old delegate was carrying 500 U.S. dollars and some local banknotes.
Dlamini said that South Africa's Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, known as Hawks, had taken over the investigation.
The 25th AU summit is being held at the Sandton Convention Center until June 15.
On May 22, several delegates attending the Pan African Parliament in Johannesburg were robbed at gunpoint in their shuttle bus at the entrance to the Protea Hotel Midrand. Endi