LÜDERITZ – Swapo Party Youth League Secretary General, Dr Elijah Ngurare, has appealed to government to consider re-introducing the death penalty in order to curb the senseless and ‘satanic killing’ of Namibian women.
Speaking at Lüderitz in the !Nami#nus district, Ngurare said it is important that government consider amending Chapter 3 of the Namibian constitution so that the death penalty can be used in ‘exceptional’ circumstances. “Young ladies have the right to walk and live without fear in Namibia. Those young men who are using young women for the experiment of death… that cannot be called passion killing that is satanic killing,” he charged. Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Justice, Tommy Nambahu said society must take responsibility for the slaying of women as it is the same society that has raised the men who kill them. According to Nambahu, it is unfair for society to shift the problem into the hands of the courts expecting them to punish the supposed ‘monsters’. “We must look at where these killers come from. They are coming from our communities.
In order for us to really address this problem, we need to look at our education system, is it developing good character and our upbringing? What is it that they are getting from Facebook? Only gossip! How many books have they read of significant importance?” he asked, adding that there is no way that Namibia can achieve Vision 2030 because at the rate at which women are killed no one will remain to fulfil that vision.
By Jemima Beukes