By Lylie Happiness
OSHAKATI, June 19 – Police in Oshana have arrested Simon Kandume who allegedly murdered his 37-year-old girlfriend, Ruth Ndapandula Immanuel, and two-year-old daughter, Lovisa Kandume, by stabbing them at the Okangwena location in Ondangwa in the early hours of Sunday.
Inspector Thomas Aiyambo said the suspect was found hiding in a room in his house at Okangwena.
A 13-year-old son is at Onandjokwe hospital undergoing operations due to the stabbing, while a five-year-old sister who witnessed the incident is receiving counselling
The suspect is an ex-Namibia Defence Force member who allegedly shot and killed other NDF members in the NDF canteen at Katima Mulilo years back. – Namibia Daily News
