Lieutenant General Joseph Shikongo has been reappointed Inspector General of the Namibian Police for another three-year term.
Shikongo was appointed to his current position by President Hage Geingob on 22 August 2022 and was scheduled to retire when he turned 60 on September 18 in line with the Public Service Act.
The reappointment of Shikongo a 40-year police veteran by President Nangolo Mbumba is effective from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2027.
Popular Democratic Movement (PDM) president McHenry Venaani was critical of the re-appointment of Shikongo saying “Why are we extending people’s terms if young people don’t have jobs in this country”.
Joseph Shimweelao Shikongo – A short biography
- He was born on 18 September 1964
- Shikongo joined the armed struggle aged 14 in 1979
- He received his military training at the Tobias Hainyeko Military Training Center in 1983
- Shikongo was deployed with the 2nd Mechanised Brigade in 1984
- He was appointed as AD Battery’s Political Commissar
- Shikongo joined the Namibia Defence Force at the Lance Corporal Rank in 1990 and was later promoted to the rank of sergeant.
- He was promoted to the rank of Staff Sergeant in 1994 and Lieutenant Rank in 1998
- Shikongo joined the Namibian Police Force in 2000 with the rank of Inspector
- He was appointed Chief of Security in the Prime Minister’s office as chief of security from 2000 to 2003
- Shikongo was transferred to the VIPP Directorate
- He served in the Crime Investigation Unit at the Wanahenda Police Station from 2004
- Shikongo was appointed Staff Officer to the deputy Inspector General of Operations in 2005
- He was appointed to serve as a Police Commissioner for Khomas Region in 2009
- Shikogo was appointed Deputy Inspector General of Operations in the Namibian Police on 1 April 2021
- He was appointed Inspector General of the Namibian Police on 22 August 2022.
