By William Mbangula
Ongenga
Quick police action in arresting suspects in the murder of NDF member, Sergeant Shipandeni Kanyemba, on June 25 in Windhoek, was commended by mourners at his funeral here.
Reverend Daniel Hamukwaya lauded the police action, saying this would at least console mourners.
Hamukwaya told an audience that included TransNamib CEO, John Shaetonhodi, and Swapo veteran and Special Adviser in the Ministry of Home Affairs and Immigration, Mzee Simon Kaukungwa, amongst others, that although the church does not condone revenge against the perpetrators of criminal activities, those responsible should be brought to book. As is customary practice , those convicted should be fined.
As believers, he told the mourners, they should forgive the killers because they (killers) did not know what they were doing.
Said Hamukwaya: “God is asking us to forgive all who trespasses against us. I know it is very difficult to forgive and give assistance to your enemy but, as believers in God’s forgiveness and the policy of national reconciliation, I think this will be possible.”
The church leader cautioned the youth who are not serious with their studies to change their behaviour.
As a result of the youth neglecting their own studies, they end up being dropouts wandering around on the streets. Some of them end up committing crimes.
The late Sergeant Kanyemba, 31, was born at Ohadiwa.
He went to school at Oshali West, Ongenga and Eengendjo Secondary School until 1994. From 1996 to 1999 he did a vocational course at VTC. He joined the NDF in 2001. He first worked at Otavi and later transferred to Windhoek where he was killed on June 25.
Described by those who knew him as a hardworking and friendly person, the NDF member is survived by his mother, Amalia Nangolo Kanyemba, three brothers and four sisters and his two children, Rachel and Gerson. His father died in 1993.