ONGWEDIVA – The Old Ongwediva parish was jam packed with friends and relatives who came to bid farewell to late Mirjam Tuyakula Nandjato on Saturday whose life was untimely cut short by her boyfriend last week Tuesday.
Speakers at the funeral described the late 24 year old Nandjato, who hailed from Elombe village in Ongwediva, as a happy, neat and quiet girl, characters she is said to have had inherited from her late father who died in 1996 when she was six years old. Her eulogy disclosed that Nandjato was a good cook and never refused duties entrusted to her.
Nandjato held a diploma in computer from the Ndeshipanda Training Institution 2010 and was working as a laboratory assistant at the Namibian Institute of Pathology (NIP) within the Oshakati Intermediate Hospital. She is survived by her mother Penny Nandjato and eight siblings, five boys and three girls.
Nandjato’s boyfriend, Ananias Nailenge from Epoko village in Okalongo, pleaded guilty when he appeared in the Oshakati Magistrate Court on Friday. He informed magistrate Mikka Namweya that he had no intention of killing Nandjato as he simply wanted to hurt her. He was not granted bail, although he still has the option to make a formal application for bail, and is set to appear in court on April 23.
Nailenge is accused of stabbing his long-time girlfriend Nandjato in the heart and decapitating her in a room that the deceased was renting for him in Oshakati West.
By Nuusita Ashipala