By Chrispin Inambao
WINDHOEK
Students in one of the hostels at the University of Namibia (Unam) had the shock of their lives when they stumbled upon the bloated body of a cafeteria worker in the Kwame Nkrumah Block, a new dormitory accommodating male students.
A journalism student said inquisitive colleagues stumbled upon the gory find when they tried to investigate the source of a persistent stench that had been growing stronger.
Students made the grisly discovery yesterday at around 15h00 and immediately alerted security.
Both Edwin Tjiramba, the Director of Communications and Marketing, and a staffer in the office of Vice-Chancellor Professor Lazarus Hangula, confirmed the nightmarish incident.
Though Tjiramba said he would only be able to avail more details on the incident when the next of kin of the deceased had been notified of the death and after a police postmortem, one source said the victim “is not a student; he was working in a cafeteria”.
Judging from the vile stench emanating from the dormitory and the decomposed state of the corpse, it appears the victim – believed to have been unwell – had died a few days previously.
Initially, sources at Unam thought the body was that of another student, but a senior journalism student said relatives confirmed he was not a student but an employee.
If this information is confirmed, it will raise a lot of questions that would only add to the latest mystery, but that would have to be unravelled by police detectives.
Members of the police who rushed to Unam removed the body at around 16h20.
The whole incident attracted a huge crowd of onlookers consisting mainly of students.