Reward offered for city murder clues

THE family of a young Windhoek woman who fell victim to an apparently motiveless murder in her home in Khomasdal a month ago, is now offering a N$10 000 reward for information that will result in the arrest of her killer.

In the month since the 29-year-old Aina Ndahafa Fillipus Ndume had been discovered stabbed to death in her home in Windhoek, Police detectives have not yet managed to arrest her suspected murderer. Yesterday her husband, John Ndume, informed The Namibian that the Ndume family was now offering a N$10 000 reward for anyone with information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of the person who murdered her.She was killed at about 19h30 on the evening of Friday, May 14, which was the day that Windhoek residents could go to the polls to vote in the 2004 local authority elections.According to witnesses who spoke to the Police, a man dressed in a knee-length khaki jacket and a khaki hat or cap was seen around the Ndume house – which is at Erf 5865, Sigma Street, Khomasdal – at around 19h00 to 20h30 on May 14.The family is asking “any person who might have seen, heard or picked up this person that might have blood on him in the vicinity of Ramatex, Oponganda Cemetery or Grysblok” to contact the Police.”We strongly believe that someone, somehow saw something or knows something about this murder.Thus we humbly request you to please come forward and give that information,” reads a statement announcing the offering of the reward.In a bloody attack in her house, Ndume was stabbed more than a dozen times with a knife.Baffling aspects of the crime was that there did not appear to be signs of forced entry into Ndume’s house, while the attacker also appeared not to have taken anything from the house, with the result that theft or robbery have not come to the fore as probable motives for the crime.Police investigators have so far been unable to establish what other motive may have lead to the murder.Anyone with information on the crime has been asked to contact Detective Constable William Dax at (cellphone) 081 245 9199, or Detective Chief Inspector Nelius Becker at 081 129 9215.The detectives have given an undertaking that all information would be treated as confidential.Yesterday her husband, John Ndume, informed The Namibian that the Ndume family was now offering a N$10 000 reward for anyone with information that would lead to the arrest and prosecution of the person who murdered her.She was killed at about 19h30 on the evening of Friday, May 14, which was the day that Windhoek residents could go to the polls to vote in the 2004 local authority elections.According to witnesses who spoke to the Police, a man dressed in a knee-length khaki jacket and a khaki hat or cap was seen around the Ndume house – which is at Erf 5865, Sigma Street, Khomasdal – at around 19h00 to 20h30 on May 14.The family is asking “any person who might have seen, heard or picked up this person that might have blood on him in the vicinity of Ramatex, Oponganda Cemetery or Grysblok” to contact the Police.”We strongly believe that someone, somehow saw something or knows something about this murder.Thus we humbly request you to please come forward and give that information,” reads a statement announcing the offering of the reward.In a bloody attack in her house, Ndume was stabbed more than a dozen times with a knife.Baffling aspects of the crime was that there did not appear to be signs of forced entry into Ndume’s house, while the attacker also appeared not to have taken anything from the house, with the result that theft or robbery have not come to the fore as probable motives for the crime.Police investigators have so far been unable to establish what other motive may have lead to the murder.Anyone with information on the crime has been asked to contact Detective Constable William Dax at (cellphone) 081 245 9199, or Detective Chief Inspector Nelius Becker at 081 129 9215.The detectives have given an undertaking that all information would be treated as confidential.