Deputy Prime Minister Natangue Ithete says efforts are being made to bring to book people who stole diamonds worth more than N$300 million from NAMDIA.

Ithete was responding to questions from PDM Leader McHenry Venaani about the progress of investigations into Namdia's robbery.

The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industries, Mines and Energy, Natangue Ithete, says the government is doing everything in its power to apprehend the people who stole diamonds worth more than N$300 million from NAMDIA.

Two men, Andreas Akwaake (53) and Immanuel Iipinge (39), were arrested in Noordoewer on March 28 for being in possession of N$725,000 in cash.

The suspects appeared before the Karasburg Magistrate's Court last week and were subsequently denied bail.

NAMDIA says that it has not recovered additional diamonds after they were robbed of the natural resource at the start of the year.