Baby given 2 names, registered to 2 dads

THE Police at Ondangwa have arrested a woman for allegedly registering the birth of her daughter twice.

Natalia Kambode (36) from Ohadiwa in the Ohangwena Region appeared in the Ondangwa Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, charged with contravening the Birth, Marriages and Death Registration Act of 1963. Kambode was not asked to plead and her case was postponed for further investigation.She is out on bail of N$1 000.According to the Commander of Police in Oshana Region, Deputy Commissioner Josef Anghuwo, two men had complained that Kambode’s daughter had two different birth certificates, naming them as the fathers.The girl, alternatively known as Laimi Ndali Shikulo and Inga Anna David, was born in April 2004.The two men named as her father, Simon Shikulo and Christian David, both from Ondangwa, told The Namibian that they had both accepted her as their daughter and supported her and her mother.The case was apparently reported to the Police by relatives who knew that the baby had two names and ‘fathers’.Kambode was not asked to plead and her case was postponed for further investigation.She is out on bail of N$1 000.According to the Commander of Police in Oshana Region, Deputy Commissioner Josef Anghuwo, two men had complained that Kambode’s daughter had two different birth certificates, naming them as the fathers. The girl, alternatively known as Laimi Ndali Shikulo and Inga Anna David, was born in April 2004.The two men named as her father, Simon Shikulo and Christian David, both from Ondangwa, told The Namibian that they had both accepted her as their daughter and supported her and her mother.The case was apparently reported to the Police by relatives who knew that the baby had two names and ‘fathers’.