| Maximum SAPS resources deployed to find Kamogelo Baukudi and his kidnapping suspects | |
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| Date Published | |
| 2025/06/07 | |
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Media Statement
PARKWEG - The Provincial Commissioner of the SAPS in the Free State, Lieutenant General Baile Motswenyane, has deployed maximum police resources to bolster the District team under the leadership of Major General Peter Adams, in an urgent effort to locate 19-year-old Kamogelo Baukudi, who was kidnapped on Thursday by suspects impersonating police officers. The team’s clear and uncompromising mandate is: to bring Kamogelo home safe and alive and apprehend whoever is involved in this barbaric act. “The investigation has reached a very critical stage. All we can do as communities is to support the family and give the investigating team some space to have a breakthrough in this case,” said Lieutenant General Motswenyane. Kamogelo Baukudi was kidnapped on Thursday, 5 June 2025, at approximately 11:55. According to the complainant he had gone to Marti Du Plessis School in Fichardt park to fetch Kamogelo, a Grade 11 learner. The two departed the school with Kamogelo driving a Suzuki Ertiga. At Vereeniging Drive in Ehrlich Park Extension, they were pulled over by a white Toyota Hilux Double Cab and two men impersonating police officers. They were accused of using the vehicle to deliver drugs. They took Kamogelo into their vehicle and instructed the complainant to drive ahead to Park Road Police Station. As they proceeded west along Vereeniging Drive the complainant lost sight of the Toyota Hilux. Kamogelo has not been seen since. The cellphones of Kamogelo and the complainant were later found under the Ferreira Road bridge. A case of Kidnapping and Impersonating a Police Officer has been opened at Parkweg Police Station. The SAPS is appealing to the public for any information that could assist in this investigation. If you saw the incident, the suspects, or the vehicles involved, please contact Lieutenant Colonel Kelaotswe Lebodi on 0825276348, Lieutenant Colonel David Ramasoala on 0825277390 or Captain Sabata Jafta Moseme on 082 526 2713, use the MySAPS App, or call the SAPS Crime Stop number: 08600 10111. Ends
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