‘She was slaughtered like a goat’

Family members and friends of a young woman allegedly killed by her boyfriend on Saturday evening at Eenhana, say they are saddened at the manner which she was killed.

Well known Eenhana personality and entrepreneur Laurence Kapule Ndaoya was shot dead by police after he allegedly slit his girlfriend, Eva-Lena Kalimbo’s (31), throat.

Ndaoya was allegedly resisting arrest when he was shot by police.

The police said the incident occurred at around 22h47 in the Eveline residential area of Eenhana.

Kalimbo’s throat and neck were cut and she was stabbed in the back, which led to her death, reported Ohangwena police commissioner Zacharias Amakali.

Later on Sunday morning at around 03h29, police tracked Ndaoya down at a house behind the Eenhana hospital where he resisted arrested and fought with the police.

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

“It is terrible, just terrible, we are all shocked, we heard the gunshots but we thought it was probably the police or security guards chasing and shooting at thieves. We never imagined that we would wake up to this kind of terrible news,” says Eenhana resident Herman Eliphas.

Members of Kalimbo’s family describe her as a beautiful and loving person who spent a lot of time with her family.

“She was always loving to her family, we spent Friday and Saturday evening together at the family establishment in town. On Friday evening, I escorted her and on Saturday evening she left us and said she was going home.

“The next thing we hear is that she was dead and in the most horrid and cowardly manner. That man slaughtered our sister as though he was killing a goat. No, no… that’s just horrific,” says a family member who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“This is the first time something like this happens in our surrounding of Eenhana, it is just terrible, shocking and very disturbing. Why didn’t he just take his own life and let the girl be, really that’s so cowardly, it’s an act of cowardice,” says resident Djeimo Festus.

Although Ndaoya and Kalimbo had two children together, they lived separately and would visit each other at their respective residences, with Ndaoya frequently the one at Kalimbo’s place, say friends.

There were no squabbles observed between the two, according to family and friends.

Problems between the couple reportedly began when Ndaoya took a trip to neighbouring Zambia towards the end of last month, when he is said to have returned acting ‘weird’.

“He was just not himself. He would just sometimes stare into space (zone off) while sitting with others and was talking about death a lot. It was strange but because he was also a man of many characters we thought nothing of it. Now that he did what he did, we are putting two and two together,” says another friend.

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