Family of man killed by police says he never fought with officers

The family of a man allegedly shot and killed by the police after reportedly killing his girlfriend on Saturday at Eenhana have denied that he had become embroiled in a physical confrontation with the police.

This was said yesterday by Laurence Kapule Ndaoya’s elder sister Caroline Ngotipeni.

“He had no weapons, not even a knife on him, the only thing he did was try to flee when police asked him to stop and they shot him.

There was no altercation between him and the police, they just shot him dead,” said Ngotipeni.

Ohangwena police crime investigations coordinator deputy commissioner Zacharias Amakali, however, maintained that Ndaoya resisted arrest.

“The suspect was shot by police during an attempt to arrest him. He resisted arrest and aggressively attacked the arresting officers,” Amakali said on Sunday.

“There are two cases that have been logged, one of murder and another is a civil case against the police and investigations will be conducted into these claims,” said Amakali.

Ndaoya is reported to have slit the throat of the mother of his two children, Eva-Leena Kalimbo, on Saturday at around 22h47 at the Eveline residential area of Eenhana.

He had been on the run before the police caught up with him in the early hours of Sunday morning and he was allegedly shot dead along Mahangu Street.

Meanwhile, Ndaoya’s live-in girlfriend and the mother of three of his children, Louise Kamati, said she had to flee and hide herself when she heard what happened to Kalimbo.

Ndaoya and Kamati lived together at a flat not far from where he was killed.

“I don’t understand what state of mind he could have been in so I was not going to take any chances. I packed up and fled to my mother’s home as soon as I heard the terrible news,” Kamati said.

The couple lived together but were reportedly going through a rough patch over the past few months and were not communicating.

“We have not been talking much over the past few months. It was only last month he came to me to apologise for all the hurt and pains he had caused me.

I forgave him and we began to talk more often and he came home to sleep at the flat ever more often. It was two weeks ago that he came to tell that he was travelling to Windhoek with Kalimbo to conduct paternity tests for their two kids.

He said he will inform me about the outcome.

The whole of last week I have not heard from him, he was around town but I couldn’t even reach him on his phone until I heard of what had happened on Saturday,” said Kamati.

It is alleged that Ndaoya attempted to kill Kalimbo because he discovered he was not the father of her two children.

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